Peruvian anthropologist Luis Millones and Mexican archeologist Eduardo Matos speak with EL PAÍS and reflect on their new book ...

This ceremony, held every August before planting season, drew people from the four corners of the empire. The great plaza of Cusco was the political center of the Inca Empire. The Saphy River ...

Around 40,000 Inca nobles ruled an empire of 12 million conquered people throughout the Andes mountain range in South America. The Incas diverted rivers and used sophisticated irrigation systems ...

The wealth and sophistication of the legendary Inca people lured many anthropologists and archaeologists to the Andean nations in a quest to understand the Inca's advanced ways and what led to ...

Over 500 years ago, Peruvian Inca people fearlessly crossed mountains and valleys, building the Inca Trail that traversed the Andes from north to south,” Xi added. “Today, the Chancay port is ...

The wealth and sophistication of the legendary Inca people lured many anthropologists and archaeologists to the Andean nations in a quest to understand the Inca's advanced ways and what led to ...

In Peru, 800-year-old remains of apparently a pre-Inca society, Chimu civilisation, have been discovered. The remains of eleven individuals buried alongside necklaces, earrings and bracelets were ...

Archaeologists in Peru have discovered the remains of what is believed to be wealthy members of the Chimu civilization, a pre-Inca society that thrived for centuries in arid plains nestled between ...

Many of these cultural treasures are objects of veneration, indicating the practice of sun worship among the ancient Shu people. In the Inca Empire, which was one of the largest in pre-Columbian ...