LIMA (Reuters) - Researchers at an archeological site in northern Peru have made an unusually large discovery of nearly three dozen people sacrificed some 600 years ago by the Incan civilization. The ...

A groundbreaking discovery by archaeologists brings the latest developments regarding the Inca empire's elites, with a bathhouse seen in the Peruvian Andes region. The researchers claimed that this is ...

Join a virtual tour of Machu Picchu with researcher Brian Forster and explore one of the world’s most breathtaking ancient sites. Travel from Peru’s Sacred Valley to the legendary Inca citadel and ...

THE OLDEST LIVING CITY IN THE AMERICAS. THIS IS CUSCO, PERU, THE CAPITAL OF THE INCAN EMPIRE. IT’S ALIVE AND IT’S UP THERE AT 11,000FT. THE ELEVATION IS MORE THAN TWICE AS HIGH AS DENVER. BUT ...

Deep in an inaccessible canyon in the remotest area of Peru, a British-American team has discovered what appears to be one of the last refuges of the Incas before their civilization was destroyed by ...

Experts have shed new light on how the Inca civilization used “trophy heads” to maintain control over conquered peoples. At its height in the 16th century, the Inca Empire spanned modern-day Peru, as ...

A series of about 5,200 holes stretching nearly a mile (1.5 kilometers) across the Pisco Valley in the southern Peruvian Andes has baffled researchers for nearly a century. But a fresh look at the ...

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, ...

LIMA, July 8 (Reuters) - Archaeologists in Peru have discovered the remains of what is believed to be wealthy members of the Chimu civilization, a pre-Inca society that thrived for centuries in arid ...

La Raya Pass, at 14,172 feet above sea level, was the highest point on my small group's drive from the shores of Lake Titicaca in southern Peru to Cuzco, the former Inca capital. The site offers ...