I hope that you will visit NMAI’s Inca Road exhibition online or in person, and that this ancient engineering marvel will spark your sense of wonder as much as it did mine.

a Spaniard who some 50 years after Atahualpa's death is said to have become rich after being led to the gold by his Incan bride's family. When he died, he left written directions to its location ...

On the morning of July 24, 1911, an enterprising lecturer-explorer from Yale University set off in a cold drizzle to investigate rumors of ancient Inca ruins in Peru. The explorer chopped his way ...