Hiking to Machu Picchu has long been on my bucket list. That a 600-year-old abandoned town built by the Incans is still ...

LIMA, Peru (AFP) — Peru unveiled a priceless manuscript containing the memoirs of former Inca leaders that had disappeared during Chile’s occupation of Lima during the 1879-84 Pacific War. The ...

As an alternative to visiting Machu Picchu, travelers can opt to explore other places in Peru, like Arequipa, surrounded by five volcanoes and home to the Monastery of Santa Catalina. Gabby Salazar, ...

The 14,000-foot-high plain of the Andes, where the Inca civilization flourished five centuries ago, is as barren a land as the world possesses. With its packs of llamas running across the puna, ...

Underwater Inca-era structures found off Peru’s coast may lead to national heritage protection for the El Huarco marine zone.

A new bioarchaeological study has identified what researchers describe as the first known case of deliberate mummification applied to a child sacrificed during the Inca capacocha ritual. The finding ...

LIMA, Peru – Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of an ancient temple, roadway and irrigation systems at a famed fortress overlooking the Inca capital of Cuzco, according to officials involved ...

Dozens of mummies dating back more than 500 years have been discovered on the path of a proposed highway on the outskirts of the Peruvian capital, near an Inca graveyard, archaeologists said Friday.

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. In the mountainous nation of Peru, there is one soda: Inca Kola. It is no exaggeration to say that the bright yellow soft drink is a cultural ...

Most first-time travelers to Peru head straight for the Inca Trail and Machu Picchu, perhaps pausing in Lima for fresh ceviche, but rarely venture further. Yet beyond the well-trodden paths lies a ...