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(Great Empires of the Past)UNCOVERING FACTUAL DATA ABOUT THE INCA EMPIRE requires a formidable team of experts: mathematicians, archaeologists, and

historians. Mathematicians work to unravel the only concrete records left

by people of the empire, quipus, knotted strings that tabulated the Inca

population and productivity down to the last dehydrated potato. Archae-

ologists dig up ancient temples, buried cities, and shrouded mummies that

tell of a complex society. Historians delve into the chronicles of Spanish

conquistadors, priests, and government clerks, the only written records of

the Inca culture. And all must separate fact from fiction, dealing with a cul-

ture whose history is intertwined with legends of stone warriors and visits

from the gods.The task is made more difficult because the Inca Empire had no writ-

ten language?not even hieroglyphs or pictograms?or numerical system.

The Inca civilization passed its history along by means of oral tradition.

Thus, the founding of the empire may have taken place in 1200?or not.

Dates and details of the early Inca Empire are all estimates.

The initial arrival of the Spanish in 1524 and their mania for cata-

loguing even their smallest accomplishments produced the first concrete

records of Inca life. Thus, the early period from 1200 to about 1525 pres-

ents a blend of fact and fiction, legends and daring deeds, mingled with cul-

tural pride. Historians have been frustrated in their pursuit of accuracy

because there is simply no way to separate tales of greatness from feats of

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