High above the old Inca capital of Cusco, a fortress-like complex of terraced walls is built from stones so large and so ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Each khipu strand represented its own decimal number. Recordkeeping wasn't a mundane statistical task in the Incan empire—it was ...

A torrent of water rushes underneath, gray and angry. Wind whips. Thunder rumbles in the distance. Clouds threaten rain. And before you is a bridge. But it is not just any bridge. It spans from one ...

The ancient Incan sanctuary of Machu Picchu is considered one of humanity's greatest architectural achievements. Built in a remote Andean setting atop a narrow ridge high above a precipitous river ...

It was early November when my wife, Raija, and I climbed aboard an early-morning bus for Lake Titicaca. I’d been living in Arequipa, Peru, for five months as a Fulbright Scholar, researching a book ...

The Incas performed child sacrifices during or after important events, such as the death of the Sapa Inca (emperor) or during a famine. Children were selected as sacrificial victims as they were ...

The Inca Trail hike to Machu Picchu is one of those bucket list treks; however, it is often quite crowded. Instead, try out this uncrowded alternative route.

In what might be the first post-pandemic blockbuster exhibition, a trove of around 200 Andean artefacts will travel from two Peruvian institutions to the Boca Raton Museum of Art in Florida later this ...

In 1995, explorer Johan Reinhard made a startling discovery on the frigid peaks of the Andes. In a crater near the summit of Ampato, a dormant Peruvian volcano, lay a frozen bundle of cloth roughly ...

The boy was only 7 years old when he died more than 500 years ago, chosen for his beauty and health to be sacrificed in an Incan ritual known as capacocha, in which children were ritualistically ...

A team of researchers with the National University of San Marcos has found and recovered a well-preserved pre-Incan mummy in an underground tomb. They have posted their findings on the university's ...

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