The Incas have the double distinction of presiding over the largest empire of the ancient Americas and one of the shortest-lived. Sprawling along the Pacific Coast and across the Andes Mountains to ...

Did you know that Machu Picchu was once home to around 750 people? It was constructed between 1438 and 1470 by Emperor ...

The building in question had only three walls, potentially enabling sound, like drums, to be directed toward the opening and ...

The Peruvian town of Huaytará is home to a 15th-century Inca building that’s unusually simple for the civilization, which is ...

pt. 1. The lords described. The hummingbird ; The hummingbird's people ; Cuzcoquiti ; Down the valley to Huanacauri ; Huanacauri to Muina ; The three roots of the Inca stock ; The Incas as a caste ; ...

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 ...

Professor Hiram Bingham, the Yale archaeologist who conducted the recent successful Peruvian expedition, lectured in New Lecture Hall last evening, under the auspices of the Harvard Anthropological ...

LIMA, Peru (AFP) — Peru unveiled a priceless manuscript containing the memoirs of former Inca leaders that had disappeared during Chile's occupation of Lima during the 1879-84 Pacific War. The ...

The mummy of an Incan child who was sacrificed to the gods more than 500 years ago belonged to a previously unknown offshoot of an ancient Native American lineage, new research finds. The child, a ...

I magine the sound that a boom box the size of a gymnasium might produce, the rumble and clang of its music echoing through ...

Although the ancient Inca are renowned for their highly organized society and extraordinary skill in working with gold, stone and pottery, few are familiar with the khipu—an elaborate system of ...