Rising from obscurity in Peru's Cusco Valley during the 13th century, a royal Inca dynasty charmed, bribed, intimidated, or conquered its rivals to create the largest pre-Columbian empire in the ...

Peru’s history has been turbulent since the time of the conquistadores, the Spanish soldiers who subdued the Inca empire. From the late 16th century, when Peru was the center of the Inquisition ...

The Australian Museum’s new exhibition, Machu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru, includes a complex inventory system ...

Machu Picchu, a 15th-century Inca site in southern Peru, is actually several decades older than previously thought, according ...

The Inca Empire encompassed mountains ... In a two part series, Dr Jago Cooper travels through Peru and Ecuador to reassess the origins, accomplishments and nature of one of the greatest empires ...

"Land of the Four Quarters" or Tahuantinsuyu is the name the Inca gave to their empire. It stretched north to south some 2,500 miles along the high mountainous Andean range from Colombia to Chile ...

The burials date back to when people in Peru were constructing large buildings ... period (circa 1800 to 900 B.C.) and ...

Peruvian authorities said Tuesday they have tightened security at the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu after tourists there were ...

This city was once the capital of the Inca Empire and remains the gateway to Machu Picchu, Peru’s main tourist attraction and UNESCO World Heritage site since 1983. Still, Lima offers the ...