Despite its relatively short reign, the Inca Empire—stretching from southern Colombia down to Chile and Argentina—developed a highly elaborated yet diverse and syncretic religious system which ...

this NOVA/National Geographic special presents new evidence that is changing what we know about the final days of the once-mighty Inca Empire. This probing story of archeological discovery begins ...

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.