For centuries, the vanished Inca fortress of Ancocagua existed only in lore. Now, at a mountaintop site in Peru, researchers ...

View of Machu Picchu, a 15th-century Inca citadel located in the Cusco Region, Urubamba Province, Machupicchu District, Peru. (Photo by Carlos Garcia Granthon/Fotoholica Press/LightRocket via Getty ...

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It has been sought for centuries but remained a mystery, still out of reach. Now an expert has pinpointed a site that could be Atahualpa's resting place: the last Inca emperor's tomb. "This is an ...

One rainy July day in 1911, after an arduous journey through the dense jungle of the Urubamba Valley in deepest Peru, the American academic and adventurer, Hiram Bingham, came upon the sculpted ...

A previously unknown Inca settlement has been discovered on a remote and rugged Andean peak, a find that could shed new light on the origin and demise of the last great Indian empire in the Americas.

Peruvian historian and US archaeologist say the pre-Columbian town was called Huayna Picchu by the Inca people Machu Picchu is one of the world’s best-known archaeological sites, a wonder of ...

"It's been 16 years since I started doing this," recounts Johan Reinhard, easily the world's leading high altitude cultural anthropologist and archaeologist. "I began very much interested in ...

Researchers have applied a unique nuclear analytic technique to pottery found at an ancient burial site high in the Andes mountains, and believe that the girl buried at this site was transported more ...

High in the Peruvian mountains stands Waqra Pukara, a dramatic ancient site often overshadowed by Machu Picchu. Its stone ...

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The remains of seven children apparently killed in a ritual and buried beneath a 500- to 600-year-old building in Peru’s Cuzco Valley have given scientists new glimpses of the sketchily understood ...