but can also take the form of shrines or monuments. As a common religious concept throughout the Andes, huacas long predated the Inca Empire, and they can still be found all over Peru and ...

Five hundred years after the Spanish conquest, the original inhabitants of Tawantinsuyu are still alive in the form of ...

and a place were the Inca used in one of their most dramatic and powerful religious ceremonies: human sacrifice. To the Incan eye, the landscape of their empire was riddled with shrines.