Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The existence of a tunnel network under the ancient Peruvian city of Cusco had been rumored for centuries. At times stretching ...

For centuries, the vanished Inca fortress of Ancocagua existed only in lore. Now, at a mountaintop site in Peru, researchers are zeroing in on a discovery that could reshape what we know of the empire ...

The 1,500-year-old Pumapunku temple in western Bolivia is considered a crowning achievement of Andean architecture, yet no one knows what the original structure actually looked like. Until now. Using ...

I plod up the mountain. Every few yards, I lean on my hiking stick, wheezing. “Pass of the Dead Woman,” at 13,776 feet, looms above me on the Inca Trail. My temples and lungs ache for want of oxygen.

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Before the rise of the Incas, a civilization known as Tiwakanu ruled the Andes, and archaeologists have uncovered a massive temple left behind by this enigmatic society. Named Palaspata by local ...

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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 rumor ...