Explore the Inca Empire's Road Network, the Qhapaq Ñan. This ancient engineering marvel connected a vast civilization across challenging mountainous terrai ...

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Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, Bolivia, Egypt, Hawaii, Easter Island and other exotic places. With special ...

The once-in-a-lifetime discovery of unlooted graves containing ancient weapons, jewelry, and 38 skeletons provides insight ...

The ancient citadel of Machu Picchu in the southern Peruvian Andes is not only world-renowned for being the most impressive legacy of the Inca people; it’s also a feat of architectural ingenuity that ...

The Chachapoyas region was conquered by the Inca Empire in the late 15th century. Knowledge of the fate of the local population has been based largely on Inca oral histories, written down only decades ...

A new study challenges widespread notions about khipus, intricate cord and knot information-recording systems, based on Spanish colonial-era sources. Reading time 2 minutes The Inca were a ...

Village authorities insisted on handling the khipus without gloves to feel the fibre differences. (Credit: William Hyland) Two vibrant bundles of string, over 10,000 feet high in the Peruvian Andes, ...

The ancient Incan sanctuary of Machu Picchu is considered one of humanity's greatest architectural achievements. Built in a remote Andean setting atop a narrow ridge high above a precipitous river ...

One archaeologist called the tombs “the discovery of the decade” as the first burials from the Chimu kingdom to have escaped ...

Learn how ancient DNA and isotope analysis revealed that Amazon parrots were transported alive across the Andes to coastal Peru in a pre-Inca trade network. Long before the Inca Empire rose to power, ...

The Chachapoyas region was conquered by the Inca Empire in the late 15th century. Inca oral histories, written down after the Spanish conquest, claim that the native population was forcibly resettled ...