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

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, ...

Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, ...

A new study of botanical remains found with three mummified Inca children atop the Llullaillaco volcano has revealed that their sacrifice likely occurred around 1499, during a period of rapid Inca ...

The tomb likely belonged to elites from the Riricancho society, which existed in the city prior to the Incas and populated Lima over 500 years ago, lead archaeologist Julio Abanto told Reuters. The ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The existence of a tunnel network under the ancient Peruvian city of Cusco had been rumored for centuries. At times stretching ...

A new study challenges widespread notions about khipus, intricate cord and knot information-recording systems, based on Spanish colonial-era sources. Reading time 2 minutes The Inca were a ...

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

William Neuman reports on the importance of the new discovery for the New York Times: At the site called Incahuasi, about 100 miles south of Lima, excavators have found, for the first time, several ...

Peruvians from the Huinchiri community in Cusco region are rebuilding a 500-year-old Incan hanging bridge, made using traditional weaving techniques to literally string a crossing together spanning ...

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