A TOWERING mountain that rises suddenly from the flat Amazon rainforest is cloaked in mystery. Cerro el Cono, the steep ...

Rising from obscurity in Peru's Cusco Valley during the 13th century, a royal Inca dynasty charmed, bribed, intimidated, or conquered its rivals to create the largest pre-Columbian empire in the ...

Although their own name for themselves remains unknown, the Chavín of Peru clearly shared common agricultural techniques, ...

Archaeologists in Peru have discovered a 2,500-year-old secret drug room filled with hollowed-out bird bones containing ...

This myth acknowledges the great importance that ... from as early as the ninth millennium B.C. It was during the Inca Empire, however, a little before the arrival of the Spanish, that coca ...

Although this empire was highly organised militarily ... Our little llama is made of gold, a key substance in Inca myth. Today, Inca objects in gold and silver are rare survivals - just tiny ...

Built in the 15th century under the reign of the Inca emperor Pachacuti, this city was a testament to the empire's power and ...

According to the legends, Tanta Carhua told the village ... the crown seat of the Inca empire. Priests, family members, and chiefs would accompany the child on this great journey to meet the ...

Though the 16th-century Spanish conquistador invasion ended the Inca Empire, the legacy of the Incas lives on in their architectural triumphs—precise, remarkably engineered stoneworks rising ...