For over 50 years, archaeologists have been conducting excavations at a site in Peru’s Viru Valley. Recently, the remains of ...

Rising from obscurity in Peru's Cusco Valley during the 13th century, a royal Inca dynasty charmed, bribed, intimidated, or conquered its rivals to create the largest pre-Columbian empire in the ...

Researchers unexpectedly found traces of cocaine in the mummified brain tissue of 17th-century people buried in a crypt in ...

The naturally freeze-dried body of a child from 560 years ago – approximately 8 years old – is now considered one of the most important anthropological artifacts in Chile and a testament to the Inca ...

priests and officials of the Inca Empire. Mummified boy from El Plomo hill (Chilean National Museum of Natural History) Before his death, there are signs that the boy walked more than 2,000km ...

A 4,000-year-old temple and theater unearthed in Peru sheds light on ancient Andean religious practices and social ...

Whether you want to learn about ancient civilisations, political movements or historical dynasties, there are so many places ...

The Inca Trail to Machu Picchu is a captivating four-day trek that takes you through the heart of the ancient Inca empire.

the Empire of the Inca - bigger than Ottoman Turkey, bigger than Ming China, in fact, the largest in the world. Around 1500, the Inca Empire ran for over three thousand miles (5,000 km ...

this NOVA/National Geographic special presents new evidence that is changing what we know about the final days of the once-mighty Inca Empire. This probing story of archeological discovery begins ...

Cusco, once the heart of the Incan Empire, is a city rich in history and culture. Nestled in the Andes Mountains of Peru, it ...

All gold belonged to the ruler of the empire, the Inca himself, who claimed to be descended from the sun god. Llamas were the Incas' most important domestic animal, providing food, clothing and ...