Peru is home to some outstanding food thanks in no small part to the various culinary influences from around the world that ...

A remarkable discovery of underground tunnels beneath Cusco’s historic district is offering fresh insights into Inca engineering and cultural practices. Cusco, once the illustrious capital of the Inca ...

Ollantaytambo, a historic town nestled in Peru's Sacred Valley of the Incas ... and agricultural center during the Inca Empire, it was one of the last refuges against the Spanish conquest.

The Inca dominated Peru’s Andes Mountains and jungles for ... land between the early 15th and 16th centuries, after which the empire controlled some 12 million people. It was during this century ...

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 ...

The researchers examined around 100 mummies from coastal Peru’s Chancay culture – a civilization that flourished before the Inca empire and the arrival of Europeans. All the individuals had ...

Under the city of Cuzco, Peru, a secret labyrinth built by the ... the 11th and 12th centuries and became the capital of the Inca empire, according to Britannica. There may have been as many ...

Atahualpa was an Inca king who, after warring with his half-brother, Huáscar, for control of the empire, was captured at his palace in Cajamarca in modern-day Peru by Spanish commander Francisco ...

In a new study, researchers used lasers to uncover highly intricate designs of ancient tattoos on mummies from Peru.