Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a ritual-based site that may have been built long before the rise of Maya rulers ...

Spotted from an airplane by remote sensing equipment, a vast and ancient Maya complex was hidden from view for millennia by forest and fields before it was made public in 2020. Five years on, ...

Climate change is not just a modern dilemma; it’s a force that has reshaped the trajectory of human history time and again.

Embarking on a trek to the legendary Lost City of the Incas is a pinnacle experience for many travelers. This journey is a ...

Over a thousand years before the Inca Empire, a desert culture in Peru built a 13-tower solar observatory that tracked the ...

A recent project at FH Münster envisions harvesting water in the environment through a solar-powered device named Water from ...

Time to tick a box off that seven-wonders list; Machu Picchu is the place to visit. Prepare for the most ground-breaking ...

We arrive in Cusco, Peru, with several hours to kill before hotel check-in, so we do what we came here for — we start walking ...

This gilt-copper nose ornament, discovered at the archaeological site of Loma Negra in northern Peru, depicts the important ...

The Inca were an illustrious ancient civilization, whose sprawling empire stretched from Ecuador to the north, to central Chile in the south. Many of the remnants of their incredible civilization are ...

It’s a sunny January afternoon in Juliaca, a city near the banks of Lake Titicaca in the high plains of southern Peru. Thousands of Indigenous Quechuan and Aymara people have gathered in the town’s ...

Sabine Hyland for The Conversation Five centuries ago, the Incas ruled the western half of South America with the help of a unique form of writing based on coloured and knotted cords. These strings, ...