Inca society kept records by encoding information into knotted cords called khipu. A new analysis of hair woven into these ...

The Stone of the Twelve Angles is one of the most representative icons of Inca architecture, known for the perfect interlocking of its stones without the use of cement or mortar. Inca Stone of 12 ...

Ancient Andean cities -- Urban civilization -- Ceremonial centres and enclosures -- ritual and funerary compounds -- Administrative architecture -- Elite and royal residences -- Domestic architecture ...

Machu Picchu, the "lost city of the Incas," was not a true city but rather a pilgrimage center symbolically connected to the Andean vision of the cosmos, an Italian study has concluded.

Since you are surrounded by history, there are countless free activities in Cuzco. Marvel at the mix of colonial and Incan architecture with a tour from Inkan Milky Way Tours. Plaza de Armas is a ...

While Machu Picchu's original purpose is still unknown, one of the most popular theories about the site is that it was the royal retreat of the 15th-century Inca Emperor Pachacuti. According to a ...

Villagers told local authorities of their find – which occurred on September 9 – and returned with officials to take another look at what could be an old Inca citadel that had been covered by ...

One hundred and six years ago today, while searching for a lost Incan capital, a 35-year-old American explorer named Hiram Bingham was led to a mountaintop in the Urubamba valley of Peru.

“Casa Concha is a remarkable place because you have Inca architecture visible and you have colonial architecture from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries visible,” Burger said. Planning for the ...

Her first project, “Inca: Conquests of the Andes,” is an ambitious and expensively installed exhibition of 120 works of Andean art. It concentrates on the museum’s pre-Hispanic and, to a ...