The discovery of a vast Inca tunnel system beneath the historic heart of Cusco has turned a whispered legend into mapped ...

Stella Nair When you look at the Burj Khalifa or the breathtaking new Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge, you might understandably ...

As Machu Picchu struggles with crowds of tourists, Joanna Booth finds tranquility at an alternative ancient site ...

The snake on this Wari vessel (800-1000 AD) represented a sacred animal symbolically linked with water and fertility. Ernest Amoroso, NMAI/SI A belt (ca. 1450) made from the shell of a mollusk ...

Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of an ancient temple, roadway and irrigation systems at a famed fortress overlooking the Inca capital of Cuzco, according to officials involved with the dig.

Hiram Bingham called Machu Picchu “the most important ruin discovered in South America since the Spanish conquest.” Ivan Kashinsky and Karla Gachet The last stretch of road that the emperor of the ...

If bones could scream, a bloodcurdling din would be reverberating through a 500-year-old cemetery in Peru. Human skeletons unearthed there have yielded the first direct evidence of Inca fatalities ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — As the second weekend of Mobile Mardi Gras approaches, the Order of Inca is loading up their floats. “That’s definitely something that Inca prides themselves on is not being ...

Do long-dead builders have the answer to more sustainable road development? A new exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC shows why the Incan kingdom built a lasting infrastructure.