For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

according to History.com. But him and his men were later forced to retreat to a village in the jungle called Vilcabamba, the last remaining bite of the Inca empire, until it disappeared in 1572.

Researchers in Peru have announced the discovery of more than 100 previously unknown archaeological structures at Gran ...

The Inca Empire was a marvel of its time ... “We study and care for the Incas, but we made invisible the local native populations from this official history,” he says. “In this narrative of Peruvian ...

their decoding could at the very least be proof that the Incas used a semasiographic system. Such a breakthrough could begin to rewrite the narrative of a civilization whose history has been told ...

The Long History of Apu Inka Atawallpaman,” with an analysis of an 1867 painting by Peruvian artist Luis Montero depicting the funeral of Atahualpa, the last king of the Inca Empire. Montero, then ...

Millions of people trek to the 15th-century Citadel to see a well-preserved Incan citadel that gives visitors remarkable insight into one of the most important civilizations in history. The Inca ...

It sparked a Spanish gold rush, which would run like a glittering seam through the whole history of Spain’s ... The volume of all the gold in the Inca Empire would have been almost 14 times ...

THIS IS CUSCO, PERU, THE CAPITAL OF THE INCAN EMPIRE. IT’S ALIVE AND IT’S UP THERE AT 11,000FT. THE ELEVATION IS MORE THAN TWICE AS HIGH AS DENVER. BUT EXPERIENCING PERU’S ANCIENT HISTORY UP ...