Hiram Bingham set out to find the last capital cities of the Incas and ended up stumbling across one of the great wonders of ...

High up in the misty Andes mountains of Peru lies a place that feels like it was plucked from a dream — stone walls, ancient ...

The Incan Temple of the Sun in Cusco has long been a visual and cultural jewel of the ancient empire. But there’s even more ...

Known as the Living Inca City, Ollantaytambo captivates travelers with its archaeological sites. Serving as a strategic military, religious, and agricultural center during the Inca Empire, it was ...

My Peru adventures started out in Lima, the capital of Peru and the city where my mother was born and raised. I was there for ...

Although the Inca Empire reigned across the Americas for just one century, its greatest legacy, Machu Picchu, has intrigued visitors for hundreds of years. But while this abandoned Andean city is ...

NASA’s Mariner 9 probe first spotted Inca City in 1972 and its geometric-looking network of ridges reminded astronomers of Inca ruins. Scientists are still not sure exactly how Inca City formed.

Why Did the Inca Build Cities in Peru’s Fault Zones? News September 25, 2019 ...

The city, which researchers believe was used as a royal resort, was occupied for only 50 years or so before 180 Spanish conquistadors, armed with rifles, wiped out the 40,000-man Inca army.