In a breakthrough discovery, archaeologists have unearthed a hidden labyrinth beneath the historic city of Cusco, Peru, confirming centuries-old rumors of a labyrinth stretching beneath the ancient ...

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 closure is part of a comprehensive conservation plan executed by the Decentralized Directorate of Culture of Cusco to ...

"Land of the Four Quarters" or Tahuantinsuyu is the name the Inca gave to their empire. It stretched north to south some 2,500 miles along the high mountainous Andean range from Colombia to Chile ...

A remarkable discovery of underground tunnels beneath Cusco’s historic district is offering fresh insights into Inca ...

In the mid- to late-16th century, the Inca empire—weakened by internal strife—fell to the rule of invading Spanish colonizers. The Inca left no written records of their underground ...

after the Inca Empire conquered the Chincha people, who were native to the region. “It was all circumstantial,” says Stanish, “but it seemed to fit.” They also felt the holes were once ...

The legend begins in the 16th century, when the great Inca Empire in western South America was giving way to European invaders. Atahualpa was an Inca king who, after warring with his half-brother ...

All gold belonged to the ruler of the empire, the Inca himself, who claimed to be descended from the sun god. Llamas were the Incas' most important domestic animal, providing food, clothing and ...

The tunnel network, known as a Chinkana, stretches over 1,750 metres at a depth of up to 2.5 metres, and is evidence of Cusco’s centrality to the Inca Empire, the largest nexus of power in Pre ...