Rising from obscurity to the heights of power, a succession of Andean rulers subdued kingdoms, sculpted mountains, and forged ...

This Peruvian city was discovered over 100 years ago, but archaeologists are still trying to solve the mystery of its purpose ...

Cuzco’s UNESCO-protected historic center layers Spanish colonial churches atop sections of ancient Incan walls in what is ...

Ruins of an ancient Incan site in present-day Argentina, sit beneath snow-capped Andean mountains, along highway 7, about an hour from the Chilean border, in October 2024. Photo by Michael Fox In the ...

A temple burial discovered in Peru from roughly 3,800 years ago pre-dates the rise of the Incan Empire. Archaeologists found four skeletal remains, all laid facing the mountains, the source of water ...

A century after American adventurer and tomb-looter Hiram Bingham came across Machu Picchu hidden deep in the Andes, thousands of visitors come daily to ponder its mysteries and marvel at Inca ...

In 1999, archaeologists found three mummified Inca children, including a teenage girl they named La Doncella, and two younger ...

Typical Tiwanaku-period offerings at Khoa Reef in Lake Titicaca, Bolivia, including stone carvings and sacrificial animal bones. Image courtesy of Teddy Seguin Hundreds of years before the Inca Empire ...

New discoveries reveal Cusco, Peru, was more than just ancient stone walls. Specialists have found a large underground city ...

Peru's Machu Picchu is more than 600 years old and yet, experts continue to learn new things about the iconic archaeological site. Last year, researchers discovered the ancient Incan city is at least ...