Machu Picchu will always be a bucket-list destination, but its popularity comes with drawbacks. Consider this alternative ...

Archaeologists confirm a mile-long tunnel network under Cusco’s Temple of the Sun, revealing Incan engineering and links to ...

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 ...

Archaeologists must have one of the coolest jobs ever—as long as a lifetime of digging around in the dirt yields some epic results, like priceless artifacts, treasure-filled tombs, or groundbreaking ...

LIMA, July 8 (Reuters) - Archaeologists in Peru have discovered the remains of what is believed to be wealthy members of the Chimu civilization, a pre-Inca society that thrived for centuries in arid ...

Chachapoyas means “cloud forest” or “people of the clouds.” It refers to a pre-Incan civilization found in northern Peru. And when you’re standing atop the ancient Kuélap Fortress—at an elevation of ...

(CNN) — Archaeologists say they have discovered the ruins of what they believe are the boundaries of an ancient temple belonging to the mysterious Andean society of Tiwanaku that disappeared around AD ...

The dug-out passages may follow the exact path of the Inca capital’s aboveground roads Sonja Anderson Daily Correspondent Spanish settlers knocked down all but the foundations of the Temple of the Sun ...

High in the Peruvian Andes, a serrated stripe of pits cuts across a barren hillside, so regular and extensive that early ...

Beneath the stone-paved streets of Cusco, a city layered with centuries of Andean and colonial history, researchers have ...

Workers installing new gas lines outside Lima, Peru uncovered eight mummies and objects dating back to pre-Inca times last week. Like an onion with several layers, the capital region of Peru has ...

Japanese scientists have used artificial intelligence to uncover 303 new etchings in Peru's Nazca desert -- doubling the amount of known geoglyphs made some 2,000 years ago by a pre-Inca civilization.