Listen to a Podcast About The Inca Empire

Discover the largest empire in pre-Columbian America — Machu Picchu, the quipu recording system, advanced agriculture, and the rapid collapse following European contact.

At its peak around 1530, the Inca Empire (Tawantinsuyu) stretched 4,000 kilometers along the Andes from modern Colombia to Chile, governing 10-12 million people without a written language, wheeled vehicles, or iron tools. Machu Picchu, built around 1450 at 2,430 meters elevation and abandoned roughly a century later, was unknown to outsiders until American historian Hiram Bingham brought international attention to it in 1911. The Inca road system spanned over 30,000 kilometers through some of the world's most extreme terrain, with relay runners (chasquis) capable of carrying messages 240 kilometers per day — faster than the Spanish postal system that replaced it.

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