Archaeologists on Thursday unveiled a 3,500-year-old city in Peru that likely served as a trading hub linking Pacific coast ...

This ancient city in modern-day Bolivia is almost 13,000 feet above sea level. Only a small portion of the ruins have been ...

Foods like hot dogs, hamburgers, and potato salad have become menu essentials at Independence Day cookouts across the country ...

A temple bigger than a city block was hiding in plain sight for over 1,000 years.

Books Received Published: 19 May 1923 Inca Land: Explorations in the Highlands of Peru Nature 111, 665 (1923) Cite this article ...

📜 The Inca Empire: Life of a Dead Emperor - To understand daily life in the Inca Empire, we travel from Cusco to Quito (located in modern-day Ecuador), where Thupa Inca wanted to establish a ...

📜 The Inca Empire: Out of Thin Air - There's a lot that we don't know for sure about the Inca Empire, because we have conflicting accounts among Spanish colonizers, as well as the fact that ...

Two cannons found at a site dating to 1541 in Arizona may be the oldest surviving firearms in the U.S. They were abandoned by the Spanish after they were defeated in battle.

Besides the Inca empire (AD 1438 to 1532), other cultures featured in the exhibition include the Chavin civilisation (900 to 250 BC), the Moche (200 BC to AD 800), the Nazca (200 BC to AD 600 ...

In the Inca Empire, which was one of the largest in pre-Columbian America, the king was seen as a descendant of the sun god, and gold was used to adorn palaces and make artifacts.

CUSCO, Peru, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) -- An exhibition of "Light of the Sun: A Dialogue Between Ancient Shu and Inca Civilizations" is being held at the Inca Museum (Museo Inka) in Cusco, Peru, to showcase ...