Lost Empire Part 3 (back to Part 2) ... Spanish culture, religion, and language rapidly replaced Inca life and only a few traces of Inca ways remain in the native culture as it exists today.

The ancient Inca had no known written language, but they may have used an intricate language of knots. Khipu, or quipu, taken from the Quechua word for “knot,” are collections of cotton or ...

Stanley Chen Xi / Getty Images. The Inca Empire owes much to the humble llama—and to the animal’s droppings. As a 2011 study of the fallen Andean civilization revealed, llama dung served as an ...

The Inca state's domain was unprecedented, its rule resulting in a universal language - a form of Quechua, a religion worshipping the sun, and a 14,000 mile-long road system criss-crossing high ...