Ruins of the Palaspata temple complex from the millennia-old Tiwanaku civilization are unraveling some mysteries about the ...

Peru, a land of timeless beauty and rich history, offers an extraordinary journey through the heart of the Inca Empire and ...

The burial belonged to a child who may have lived among fishermen from the Chancay culture, which thrived in Peru before the ...

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

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By 1532, when Pizarro invaded, the Inca Empire stretched from what is now southern Colombia all the way to central Chile. The Inca leader Pachacuti, as depicted by an early chronicler.

Since the Inca Empire spoke other languages, including today the Aymara, Chachapoya (or Puquina) and Mochica, it’s clear that the Inca were never just one heterogenous culture. Since it was mostly a ...

The Inca Empire may be the only advanced civilization in history to have no class of traders, and no commerce of any kind within its boundaries. How did they do it?

The Tiwanaku society thrived around the highest navigable lake in the world – before their mysterious disappearance ...

500-Year-Old Inca Mummy Repatriated to Bolivia Dubbed Ñusta, or ‘Princess,’ the mummy represents the first archaeologically significant set of remains to be repatriated to the Andean country ...

The growth of the Inca Empire was meteoric. Though precise dates for its beginnings remain elusive, the realm known to the Inca as Tahuantinsuyu, or "The Four Parts Together," arose sometime in ...