At the height of its dominion, the Inca empire held sway over much of western South America—from the jagged spine of the Peruvian Andes to the sunbaked deserts of northern Chile. To traverse the ...

Hiram Bingham set out to find the last capital cities of the Incas and ended up stumbling across one of the great wonders of ...

Archaeologists confirm a mile-long tunnel network under Cusco’s Temple of the Sun, revealing Incan engineering and links to ...

Remarkably, a last bastion of the Inca empire remained unknown to the Spanish conquerors and was not found until explorer Hiram Bingham discovered it in 1911.

In 2013 and 2014, for instance, archaeologists excavated an Inca storehouse and found several khipus alongside caches of peanuts and chili peppers; a 2015 paper argued that the cords helped track ...

A groundbreaking discovery unveils a hidden network of ancient Inca underground streets, or "Chicana," beneath Cusco's historic cityscape. Archaeologists Jorge Calero and Mildred Fernandez, who ...

"There's an inventory of over 100 bridges in all of the empire — this is one of the few which remain. It's made with icchu or puna grass," Matos says. The Inca Empire only lasted about a century.

Yet Inca culture proved persistent. Some 10m people in Peru and nearby countries speak Quechua, the Incas’ language of empire, whose use the Spaniards discouraged.

The first tells of how Manco Capac and Mama Ocllo, the children of the Sun God, came to found the Inca Empire in Cusco valley after traveling over 500 kilometers (311 miles) from Lake Titicaca.