Hiram Bingham set out to find the last capital cities of the Incas and ended up stumbling across one of the great wonders of ...

The Incan Temple of the Sun in Cusco has long been a visual and cultural jewel of the ancient empire. But there’s even more ...

LIMA, Peru (AFP) — Peru unveiled a priceless manuscript containing the memoirs of former Inca leaders that had disappeared during Chile's occupation of Lima during the 1879-84 Pacific War. The ...

Because the Inca didn't employ a recognizable system of writing, researchers like Galen Brokaw, assistant professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures in the College of Arts and ...

The world's highest archaeological site is an Inca ruin, presumably a temporary stone shelter, on the summit of Llullaillaco at 22,015 feet in Chile. "It isn't easy doing these excavations," Johan ...

Inca Skull Rewrites History of Conquest. June 19, 2007 More than 17 years ago. By Marc Kaufman. The 500-year-old skull, found in a long-forgotten Inca cemetery outside Lima, Peru, ...

In “The Inca,” Kevin Lane, a researcher at the University of Buenos Aires, offers a concise and well-illustrated introduction to this bygone realm, describing its history and culture and ...

Examples of government control over social and economic life are as old as recorded history, and they always have features that are universal in their perverse effects regardless of time or place. One ...

The Inca string code that reveals Peru’s climate history. ... Five centuries ago, the Incas ruled the western half of South America with the help of a unique form of writing based on coloured and ...