The Inca Empire may be the only advanced civilization in history to have no class of traders, and no commerce of any kind within its boundaries. How did they do it? Many aspects of Incan life ...

The stories and language of their ancestors have been lost to time. But their spirits remain. And the ruins remember. This is ...

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 ...

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

My Peru adventures started out in Lima, the capital of Peru and the city where my mother was born and raised. I was there for ...

A pre-Hispanic mummy dating back 1,000 years was recently found by utility workers in Lima, Peru, with archaeologists linking it to the Chancay culture that predated the Inca Empire.

The first tells of how Manco Capac and Mama Ocllo, the children of the Sun God, came to found the Inca Empire in Cusco valley after traveling over 500 kilometers (311 miles) from Lake Titicaca.

The Inca Empire has a population of 10 million people and a land area of over 900,000 square kilometers, once used to be the largest empire in the Western Hemisphere. He had a centralized ...

The ancient Incan Empire once ruled much of the Andes and despite being defeated by the Spanish it has left historical and cultural legacies in the region.

The researchers found a clear improvement in cranial surgery on the coastal regions and the Andean highlands of Peru, which led to a high survival rate in the 15th- and 16th-century Inca empire.