Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A burial chamber in Peru containing mummies and artifacts. . While installing new gas lines just beneath the busy streets of Lima, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologist Jose Aliaga works at the site where city workers discovered ancient remains, from the pre-Inca Chancay culture, and ...

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

Archaeological excavations in Cusco have uncovered human remains and gold artifacts dating to 1000 BC, belonging to the Marcavalle culture that flourished nearly two millennia before the Inca empire ...

An overlooked fortress high in Peru’s southern Andes is suddenly changing the way archaeologists talk about the last chapters of the Inca Empire. T’aqrachullo, also known as María Fortaleza ...

aYou've likely heard of the advanced skills of the Inca Empire. From creating a reliable system of measurement and communication to building a 25,000-mile road system, the Incas were brilliant, ...

For centuries, the vanished Inca fortress of Ancocagua existed only in lore. Now, at a mountaintop site in Peru, researchers are zeroing in on a discovery that could reshape what we know of the empire ...