The Peruvian town of Huaytará is home to a 15th-century Inca building that’s unusually simple for the civilization, which is ...

The building in question had only three walls, potentially enabling sound, like drums, to be directed toward the opening and ...

A 15th-century Inca building in the remote Peruvian town of Huaytará may have been constructed for the purpose of amplifying ...

I magine the sound that a boom box the size of a gymnasium might produce, the rumble and clang of its music echoing through ...

Beyond Machu Picchu, these destinations reveal a side of the country that most visitors miss—from volcanic cities and canyon ...

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 ...

The Inca empire is renowned for its architecture; its buildings were intricately designed and extraordinarily durable. But this summer, it was another aspect of Inca construction that captured the ...

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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 ...

"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 and ...

One of history's greatest engineering feats is one you rarely hear of. It's the Inca Road, parts of which still exist today across much of South America. Fortunately, I have Peruvian archaeologist ...