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 in South America, one of the most powerful pre-Columbian societies, was known for many innovations — such as the architecture of Machu Picchu, an extensive road network, and a system ...

"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 ...

Researchers have uncovered fascinating new insights into an ancient mountaintop settlement high up in the Peruvian Andes, which pre-dates the famous Inca site of Machu Picchu. National Geographic ...

If bones could scream, a bloodcurdling din would be reverberating through a 500-year-old cemetery in Peru. Human skeletons unearthed there have yielded the first direct evidence of Inca fatalities ...

One look at recent images released by the European Space Agency may cause you to wonder if spiders are on the cusp of bursting forth onto the Martian surface. But arachnophobes have nothing to fear, ...

While the ancient Egyptians may be the best-known mummy makers, they were far from the first. A very sophisticated fishing tribe called the Chinchoros, who lived on the north coast of what is now ...