A new study reveals the most complex numeric connection ever made between two khipus. It could help lead us to even more ...

Microsoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and ...

The Chancay port will be one of South America’s largest belt and road successes, though it has raised local concerns about ...

The Incas worshipped the high peaks that pierce the South American skies. These rugged summits represented a means of approaching the Sun God, Inti, the center of their religion, and many ...

Ancient monuments like the Pyramids of Giza, Stonehenge, and Machu Picchu continue to mystify with their complex construction ...

Get your Indiana Jones-style fedora ready for a modern-day armchair expedition of places rediscovered after centuries—and ...

Peru aims to showcase its renowned cuisine at the APEC Forum by serving world leaders dishes like ceviche, quinoa, and ...

On a local level, heavy metal and chemical pollution from unmaintained factories and infrastructure will exert pressures on ...

This small gold model of a llama is a fitting offering for an Inca mountain god. The Incas revered gold as the sweat of the sun and believed that it represented the sun's regenerative powers.

But they got it wrong. Thousands of years earlier the pre-Incas were able to plot its location almost as accurately as modern day GPS. How did they do it? In this film, we explore how indigenous ...

The first known Incas, a noble family who ruled Cuzco and a small surrounding high Andean agricultural state, date back to A.D. 1200. The growth of the empire beyond Cuzco began in 1438 when ...

For Halloween, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reveals a spooktacular image of a dark nebula that creates the illusion of a wolf-like silhouette against a colourful cosmic backdrop. Fittingly ...