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 ...
Beneath the stone-paved streets of Cusco, a city layered with centuries of Andean and colonial history, researchers have located what may be the most significant Inca discovery in recent years. For ...
A series of about 5,200 holes stretching nearly a mile (1.5 kilometers) across the Pisco Valley in the southern Peruvian Andes has baffled researchers for nearly a century. But a fresh look at the ...
Members of the public regularly get in touch with Charles Stanish, an expert on Andean cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. Two years ago, Stanish received a call from a man in ...
Archaeologists found two 500-year-old quarries in the Cañete mountains and a trail network used during the final stage of the Inca empire, photos show. Photo from Qhapaq Ñan Project Atop some ...
Inca Advances into the Eastern Tropics: The Amazon and Chaco in Perspective / Sonia Alconini -- Rock Shrines, Ceque Lines and Pilgrimage in the Provinces / Jessica Joyce Christie -- Heritage Tourism ...
When Kim Pemberton made the journey to Machu Picchu last November, she found that while the ruins themselves remain largely ...
DNA analysis of 34 individuals buried at Machu Picchu revealed that many traveled alone from throughout the Inca Empire. Who lived at Machu Picchu at its height? A new study, published today in ...
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