In a rare find, archaeologists in Peru have discovered freeze-dried potatoes that the Inca carried hundreds of miles from the Andes so their people would not starve.

Long before modern refrigeration, the ancient Inca Empire was preserving food for years and moving it across vast distances. Archaeologists have now uncovered rare evidence of that system in Peru. Two ...

An Inca citadel in Peru may reshape Andean history with hundreds of structures and thousands of remarkable artifacts.

In 1999, archaeologists found three mummified Inca children, including a teenage girl they named La Doncella, and two younger ...

Rising from obscurity to the heights of power, a succession of Andean rulers subdued kingdoms, sculpted mountains, and forged ...

Deep in the Andes, atop the frozen summit of Llullaillaco volcano on the border of Argentina and Chile, archaeologists once found the remarkably prese.

Airborne laser scanning has exposed a dense network of pre-Hispanic urban centers in Ecuador’s Upano Valley, complete with ...

In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the Inca Empire was the largest South America had ever known. Centered in Peru, it stretched across the Andes’ mountain tops and down to the shoreline, ...

Steeped in death, conquest, desire, and mystery, the legend of the lost Inca gold is guarded by remote, mist-veiled mountains ...

The Inca recognized the importance of guano and the islands where the so-called guano birds breed as central to the survival of their civilization — and they responded by implementing the first ever ...

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