To spare his life, the emperor offered up the largest cache of gold the Spanish ... the godsIn the Inca capital, Cusco, the Koricancha stood as a great temple dedicated to the sun god.

This small gold model of a llama is a fitting offering for an Inca mountain god. The Incas revered gold as the sweat of the sun and believed that it represented the sun's regenerative powers.

Located at the center of Inca Cuzco, Peru, it is the primary temple of the sun god Inti. As the story goes, Inti gives his children a golden staff and instructs them to find a place where the ...

At times stretching more than a mile, the labyrinth connected the Temple of the Sun to key points ... said that the tunnels were created by the Inca people. They first dug trenches, and then ...

Spanish settlers knocked down all but the foundations of the Temple of the Sun, then built a church atop the Inca walls. Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons It’s long been rumored ...

Though legend has it that Qorikancha, the Inca Temple of the Sun in Cusco, was once covered in sheets of gold, buildings ...

including the Temple of the Sun (Coricancha) and the fortress of Sacsayhuamán. Following up on a tip by a 17th century Jesuit monk, researchers discover an Inca tunnel network under Cusco.

An Inca legend says the Inca Empire was destroyed by the gods when a gold and jeweled starburst was stolen from the Temple of the Sun centuries ago, and the ancient civilization will spring anew ...

Tickets and tours for the Inti Raymi festival of the Sun, Peru's largest and most famous celebration, are now available at IntiRaymiPeru.com some 70,000 tourists are expected to attend the Inti ...