For centuries, tales of secret tunnels beneath the ancient Inca capital of Cusco were considered little more than legends. Today, archaeology is beginning to substantiate these claims in the ruins ...

Join a virtual tour of Machu Picchu with researcher Brian Forster and explore one of the world’s most breathtaking ancient sites. Travel from Peru’s Sacred Valley to the legendary Inca citadel and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The existence of a tunnel network under the ancient Peruvian city of Cusco had been rumored for centuries. At times stretching ...

Ancient DNA reveals pre-Inca societies transported live Amazonian parrots across the formidable Andes mountains.

A study of Inca skeletons reveals how ancient communities cared for those affected by disabilities and chronic illnesses in the Inca period.

A new study shows that parrots and Amazon macaws were traded across the Andes for elite feather ornaments long before the ...

Ancient parrots really got around. A new analysis of their DNA found that humans transported living Amazonian macaw parrots across the Andes mountains to coastal Peru hundreds of years before the Inca ...

Journey high into the Andes Mountains to discover the secrets of the ancient empire of the Inca, a civilization that rivaled the Roman Empire, yet rose and fell within 100 years. The Inca were ...

William Neuman reports on the importance of the new discovery for the New York Times: At the site called Incahuasi, about 100 miles south of Lima, excavators have found, for the first time, several ...

The existence of a tunnel network under the ancient Peruvian city of Cusco had been rumored for centuries. At times stretching more than a mile, the labyrinth connected the Temple of the Sun to key ...