Rising from obscurity in Peru's Cusco Valley during the 13th century, a royal Inca dynasty charmed, bribed, intimidated, or conquered its rivals to create the largest pre-Columbian empire in the ...

For more than a millennium, many Andean peoples used an object called a "khipu" (also spelled "quipu" and pronounced "key-poo ...

The Incas revered gold as the sweat of the sun and believed that it represented the sun's regenerative powers. All gold belonged to the ruler of the empire, the Inca himself, who claimed to be ...

Plus, you can visit the ruins of several of them today. Learn all about these lost civilizations submerged under the sea and the reasons that caused their disappearance. When you think of the ancient ...

Long before any contact, ancient Peruvian and Chinese civilizations shared remarkable similarities. Both the Inca ...

Some 303 previously uncharted geoglyphs made by the Nazca, a pre-Inca civilization in present-day Peru dating from 200 B.C.

Paul Becerra is among the many visitors who have been captivated by the stunning reproduction of artifacts from Southwest ...

A new study reveals that the capacocha ritual of child sacrifice, practiced by the Incas, involved ceremonial use of ceramic ...

Researchers find surprising patterns in Inca khipu, shedding light on these ancient recording devices used for counting and ...

The Australian Museum’s new exhibition, Machu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru, includes a complex inventory system ...