Archaeologists using LiDAR have uncovered1.5 miles of pre-Columbian roads buried under dense tropical forest beside Machu ...

Imagine building a highway system longer than the circumference of the Earth — without wheels, without iron tools, and without modern machinery — through some of the most punishing terrain on the ...

Rising from obscurity to the heights of power, a succession of Andean rulers subdued kingdoms, sculpted mountains, and forged a mighty empire.

Science spotlights research showing Qhapaq Ñan sites in Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia, and Argentina predate the classic 1438 ...

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 ...

In many regions in the Andes, where the Inca Empire once flourished, mummies are frequently discovered. It has become clear that there was a mummy culture unlike any other seen in the world. Why did ...

In the remote town of Huaytará, Peru, the building that houses the Church of San Juan Bautista is more than what it seems. It was built upon a three-walled Incan structure called a carpa uasi that ...

Steeped in death, conquest, desire, and mystery, the legend of the lost Inca gold is guarded by remote, mist-veiled mountains in central Ecuador. Somewhere deep inside the unforgiving Llanganates ...

The great Inca Empire is survived by its legacy in economics, science, art, religion, and—an add-on to the last two—sacrificial rituals. According to a new study, these holy proceedings also included ...