As we rode the air-conditioned bus down from the mountain citadel at Machu Picchu in the Peruvian Andes, a small boy dressed in traditional Inca warrior gear, appeared on the dusty single-lane road ...

The knotted strings used by the ancient Inca may have conveyed accounting information and words, a new computer analysis suggests. The strings, called khipu, include knots in various colours and ...

American and British explorers said on Thursday they'd found a long-lost Inca town. The ancient site was discovered in an isolated valley, about 100 kilometres west of the ancient Inca capital Cusco.

Read more 50,000-year-old TIARA made of woolly mammoth ivory discovered - and it was worn by men The city was sacred to the Inca people of South America (Dr Alexei Vranich /SWNS.COM) ...

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 to admire below ground. Recently, archaeologists confirmed a long-held ...