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 ...

Machu Picchu, a 15th-century Inca site in southern Peru, is actually several decades older than previously thought, according ...

LIMA, April 14 (Reuters) - Archaeologists in the Peruvian Andes have discovered an Inca bathing complex built half a millennia ago, which they believe may have served the elite of the sprawling empire ...

Who lived at Machu Picchu at its height? A new study, published today in Science Advances, used ancient DNA to find out for the first time where workers buried more than 500 years ago came from within ...

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 ...

Roughly a century before the Inca empire came to power in A.D. 1400, blasts of human-produced thunder may have rumbled off a ridge high in the Andes Mountains. New evidence indicates that people who ...

Archaeologists working on a natural gas project in Peru’s capital have uncovered five pre-Inca burial sites beneath a street in a neighborhood flanked by modern buildings and a golf club. The ...

Authorities in Peru have suspended train services to the world-famous Inca citadel at Machu Picchu over protests by local communities at an irrigation project that they say could leave them without ...

An intoxicated man wielding a metal tool is accused of attacking and damaging the Stone of Twelve Angles in Peru, a famed Inca construction, cultural officials said. A man walked up to the cultural ...

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 ...