Published 4th November 2021

Led by emperors deemed divine, in less than a century the Inca went from being a small, war-like tribe struggling to exist in the shadow of the Andes to ruling as the undisputed masters of South America, forging a sprawling empire that was home to 10 million people at its peak. In this bookazine you'll discover the origins of these fascinating people, meet some of the rulers who shaped the empire through conquest and diplomacy, marvel at Inca engineering and uncover how a mixture of civil war, disease and invasion combined to bring a once-mighty realm crashing to its knees.