The fabled route leading to Machu Picchu is one of the world's most jaw-droppingly beautiful treks – but it's also plagued by ...

A visit to the former Inca Empire reveals epic feats of construction and engineering that have withstood the test of time, ...

Steeped in death, conquest, desire, and mystery, the legend of the lost Inca gold is guarded by remote, mist-veiled mountains in central Ecuador. Somewhere deep inside the unforgiving Llanganates ...

The girl was only 13 years old when she was sacrificed to the gods but had been frozen in time for hundreds of years when a ...

It ascends past Andean cloud forests to Warmiwañusca, the infamous "Dead Woman's Pass" at 4,215m, before descending to the ancient Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, one of the Seven New Wonders of ...

So they are in high – they are the peak of Peruvian history, the moment when we did the best. There are several problems with that because Peru is one thing now. The Inca are not necessarily Peru.

On the morning of July 24, 1911, an enterprising lecturer-explorer from Yale University set off in a cold drizzle to investigate rumors of ancient Inca ruins in Peru. The explorer chopped his way ...

His acclaimed work, La Florida del Inca (1605), vividly chronicles Hernando de Soto’s expedition and is regarded as one of the earliest classics of American history and literature. On the ...