The 14,000-foot-high plain of the Andes, where the Inca civilization flourished five centuries ago, is as barren a land as the world possesses. With its packs of llamas running across the puna, ...

The discovery of a vast Inca tunnel system beneath the historic heart of Cusco has turned a whispered legend into mapped ...

LIMA, Peru — Hipólito Tica had saved for decades to finally build himself a proper house in a working class neighborhood of Lima. His problem was what to do about “the neighbors” — as he called the ...

There’s nothing more humbling on the Inca Trail than trudging along, proud of your progress, only to have porters fly past you with massive packs strapped to their backs. While you’re gasping for ...

The dug-out passages may follow the exact path of the Inca capital’s aboveground roads Sonja Anderson Daily Correspondent Spanish settlers knocked down all but the foundations of the Temple of the Sun ...