Steeped in death, conquest, desire, and mystery, the legend of the lost Inca gold is guarded by remote, mist-veiled mountains in central Ecuador. Somewhere deep inside the unforgiving Llanganates ...

Jucul sits at an altitude of 11,800 feet, six hours north of Lima on axle-rattling mountain roads. The village is surrounded by green-brown slopes streaked with rocks, like waterfalls frozen in place.

Lake Titicaca was a sacred space to the ancient Andean empire of the Inca, which at its height in the early 16th century controlled territory from modern-day Colombia to Chile.The Inca built more ...

Taken together, these results support our hypothesis that aBM was introduced into western highland Bolivia from the Inca core area – modern Peru, and aBM may possibly reveal a history of adaptation to ...

Modern scholars see the Chancay not as a centralised empire but as a confederated cultural powerhouse—strong, aesthetic, and religiously complex. Their fascinating mix of mundane practicality, ritual ...

Installed as Great Inca, El Dorado has at least reunited the four quarters of the Empire. But a mysterious asteroid is meancing the harmonious balance that our old and powerful planet has built up ...

This is Q’eswachaka. The last Incan Bridge. It stands over 12,000 feet above sea level and spans 30 meters over the Apurimac River down in a majestic canyon never found by the Spanish.

Located in a beautiful 16th-century colonial mansion that was once home to Spanish Admiral Francisco Alderete Maldonado, the Museo Inka (Inca Museum) boasts an eclectic assortment of Incan artifacts.

Utility workers excavating trenches to expand the network of natural gas pipelines in Peru’s capital have uncovered a pre-Inca mummy approximately 1,000 years old, barely half a meter from the surface ...

The pottery they left behind gives archaeologists clues as to how the empire functioned. In a new study in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports , researchers showed that rather than using ...