Earliest Settlements 1800 B.C.E. The Mayan Empire might just be one of the most famous civilizations in the ancient world, ...

The builders of Machu Picchu ruled a vast empire. Emerging from the Cusco region of Peru in the 13th century, the Inca ...

Predates the Incan Empire Lake Titicaca, some 12,464 feet above sealevel, lies on the border between Bolivia and Peru, and is thehighest navigable lake in the world.

In the Inca Empire, which was one of the largest in pre-Columbian America, the king was seen as a descendant of the sun god, and gold was used to adorn palaces and make artifacts. The organizers ...

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A pre-Hispanic mummy dating back 1,000 years was recently found by utility workers in Lima, Peru, with archaeologists linking ...

A pre-Inca mummy unearthed in Peru’s Puente Piedra district reveals details about a young woman’s life and ancient Chancay rituals.

Utility workers excavating trenches to expand the network of natural gas pipelines in Peru’s capital have uncovered a pre-Inca mummy approximately 1,000 years old, barely half a meter from the surface ...

On the southern shores of Lake Titicaca in present-day Bolivia, more than a thousand years ago, one of the most powerful and enigmatic civilizations of the Andes developed: the Tiwanaku. Considered by ...

Located in a beautiful 16th-century colonial mansion that was once home to Spanish Admiral Francisco Alderete Maldonado, the Museo Inka (Inca Museum) boasts an eclectic assortment of Incan artifacts.

This is Q’eswachaka. The last Incan Bridge. It stands over 12,000 feet above sea level and spans 30 meters over the Apurimac River down in a majestic canyon never found by the Spanish. It was ...

In the Andean highlands near Lake Titicaca, Sebastian Quimicchi — an Inca from the town of San Pedro de Cocharcas — commissioned a painted copy of the sculpture "Our Lady ...