Researchers from Penn State University and in Bolivia have recently discovered a temple from the Tiwanaku civilization, one ...

In the heart of the Peruvian Andes, the ancient ritual of Inti Raymi returned in full colour on 24 June, as it does each year ...

The global appreciation of the hanging bridges of the Andes goes a long way back. In 1877, American archaeologist E. George Squier published Peru: Incidents of Travel and Exploration in the Land of ...

In his 2015 trip to Bolivia, Pope Francis asked for forgiveness for the "grave sins" committed against native people in the Americas in the name of the Catholic Church. In Peru this week, he will be ...

Abandoned by the Inca Empire, its existence eluded the Spanish conquistadores, and it wasn’t until the explorer Hiram Bingham returned from an expedition in the early 1900s with photographs of ...

But the empire barely lasted for a century. Beginning in the mid-fifteenth century, it fell in the 1530s with the arrival of Spanish conquistadores, led by Pizarro.

Archaeologists found two 500-year-old quarries in Cañete mountains and trail transport network from final stage of Inca empire, photos show.

Gift from the Gods. According to historians, the Incas regarded the rainbow as a gift from the sun-god. Some argue that the rainbow was in fact the banner of the Inca empire which, at its height in ...