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 ...

A sophisticated network of underground streets created by the Inca Empire has been discovered beneath the city of Cusco.

Buried alongside the mummies are statuettes, carvings, and castings made from gold, silver, wood, and spondyllus, a spiny oyster shell from the coast of Ecuador that was highly prized by the Inca.

High up in the misty Andes mountains of Peru lies a place that feels like it was plucked from a dream — stone walls, ancient ...

Archaeologists in the Peruvian Andes have discovered an Inca bathing complex built half a millennia ago, ... The "finely carved" bath averages some two-meters in depth, ...

Inca Skull Surgery. ... the Inca performed a type of operation called trepanation—literally carving holes in patients' skulls. How did they do it, and why? In this audio slide show, ...