New discoveries reveal Cusco, Peru, was more than just ancient stone walls. Specialists have found a large underground city ...

This video shows Machu Picchu, Peru, an ancient Inca settlement located high in the Andes Mountains above the Urubamba Valley ...

An analysis of corn, cassava and coca plants discovered with sacrificed Inca children reveals they died during the reign of ...

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

The Inca Empire in South America, one of the most powerful pre-Columbian societies, was known for many innovations — such as the architecture of Machu Picchu, an extensive road network, and a system ...

Archaeologists excavating the ancient Inca provincial center of Tambo Viejo on Peru’s arid southern coast have made an extraordinary discovery: two 500-year-old freeze-dried potatoes. Known as chuño, ...

ANTH copy 39088019656784 gift from Paul R. Julian. Introduction -- Discovering the Incas and their predecessors -- Native and Spanish sources -- Explorers and the first archaeologists -- 20th-century ...

Archaeologists digging at an Inca site on the arid coast of southern Peru have unearthed two rare, roughly 500-year-old ...