Click2Biography - Mummies - INCA MUMMIES - Chapter 2

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=330033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=330033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>MUMMIES</p> <p><font size="4"><b>CHAPTER 2 - INCA MUMMIES</b></font></p> </div>  <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">From <a target="_blank" href="images/Cuzco.jpg"><b>Cuzco</b></a>, his <a target="_blank" href="images/capital_PomadeAyalaPg1059.jpg"><b>capital</b></a> in the high Andes, The Ninth Inka (Inca), <a target="_blank" href="images/pachacuti_PomadeAyalaPg108.jpg"><b>Pachacuti</b></a>, <a target="_blank" href="images/ruled.jpg"><b>ruled</b></a> his <a target="_blank" href="images/people_PomadeAyalaPg320.jpg"><b>people</b></a>. Later, <a target="_blank" href="images/an_empire.png"><b>an empire</b></a> (building on Pachachuti’s early <a target="_blank" href="images/conquests_PomadeAyalaPg163.jpg"><b>conquests</b></a>), would be called "<a target="_blank" href="images/inca_PomadeAyalaPg335.jpg"><b>Inca</b></a>," (in English, "<a target="_blank" href="images/the_ruler_PomadeAyalaPg333.jpg"><b>the ruler</b></a>").</p> <p>Once the <a href="http://www.ccha-assoc.org/andeanworld/rationale.htm" target="_blank"><b>largest</b></a> civilization in "the new world," <a target="_blank" href="images/stretching.gif"><b>stretching</b></a> north through Equador and extending south to Argentina, the Incan Empire flourished for about 100 years (during the 15th and 16th centuries). When the Atahualpa Inka was <a target="_blank" href="images/kidnapped_PomadeAyalaPg389.jpg"><b>kidnapped</b></a> (and later <a target="_blank" href="images/killed_PomadeAyalaPg392.jpg"><b>killed</b></a>), the kingdom fell to <a target="_blank" href="images/gold_seeking_PomadeAyalapg371.jpg"><b>gold-seeking</b></a> Spanish <a target="_blank" href="images/Conquistadors_PomadeAyalaPg373.jpg"><b>Conquistadors</b></a>, in the <a target="_blank" href="images/16_century_PomadaAyalaPg396.jpg"><b>16th century</b></a>. The <a target="_blank" href="images/life_PomadeAyalaPg206.jpg"><b>life</b></a> and <a target="_blank" href="images/times_PomadeAyalaPg217.jpg"><b>times</b></a> of the <a target="_blank" href="images/people_Poma%20de%20Ayala%20Pg%20225.jpg"><b>people</b></a> remained largely unknown to the outside world since the Incas did not have a written language. <a target="_blank" href="images/Machu-Picchu.jpg"><b>Machu Picchu</b></a>, (<i>Machupijchu</i>) today the most famous <a href="http://www.peru-machu-picchu.com/map.php" target="_blank"><b>settlement</b></a> of the Incan Empire, remained <a href="http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/latinamerica/south/sites/machu_picchu.html" target="_blank"><b>hidden</b></a> until a Yale archaeologist (Hiram Bingham) rediscovered it in 1911.</p> <p>As the 20th century continued, scholars (seeking to learn more about the empire) found unexpected information in unanticipated places: <a href="http://www.nationalgeographic.com/channel/inca/" target="_blank"><b>Incan mummies</b></a> were being located in Peru.</p> </div> <p align="center"><font size="2"><a href="mummies_ch1.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER</a>   <a href="mummies_ch3.htm">GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p><br> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </body>