For centuries, the vanished Inca fortress of Ancocagua existed only in lore. Now, at a mountaintop site in Peru, researchers are zeroing in on a discovery that could reshape what we know of the empire ...

Fascinating evidence has emerged about historical migration patterns along Peru’s Pacific coast. According to recent data reports, these patterns formed centuries before the rise of the power and ...

Pisac Ruins, located in Peru’s Sacred Valley, showcase the remarkable engineering of the Inca civilization with their ...

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 ...

Researchers studying an ancient form of writing used by the Incas in pre-Columbian South America have unraveled new clues to a longstanding mystery. The research, undertaken by Professor Sabine Hyland ...

Peru's first great empire left no written records. Now, archaeologists are piecing together who the Wari were with the help ...

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 ...

Ancient DNA reveals people traveled more than 435 miles along Peru’s coast centuries before the Inca Empire, reshaping ancient history.

Learn how ancient DNA traced a massive pre-Inca migration along Peru’s coast, and how communities preserved their cultural ...

THE OLDEST LIVING CITY IN THE AMERICAS. 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 ...

A groundbreaking discovery by archaeologists brings the latest developments regarding the Inca empire's elites, with a bathhouse seen in the Peruvian Andes region. The researchers claimed that this is ...