This ancient city in modern-day Bolivia is almost 13,000 feet above sea level. Only a small portion of the ruins have been ...

Rice is difficult to grow in the Pacific, so how did it end up in a cave? Archaeologists reveal the hidden history of this ...

The use of the quipu dates back to 2500 BCE, long before the Inca Empire emerged. We still don't know how it originated. Deciphering quipus is tough.

Inka khipu with human hair was carbon dated to the Inca Empire, around 1480AD. Isotopic sampling of the human hair on the Inca khipu shows that the diet of the person who made the khipu was that ...

The research, undertaken by Professor Sabine Hyland at the University of St. Andrews, reveals that the enigmatic form of communication, known as quipu (also written as khipu), helped record ...

Gary Bybee, 86, is reportedly the oldest person to ever complete Peru's Inca Trail. The Sunset retiree completed the 26-mile trek to Machu Picchu over four days in May with his son and other friends.

Quipu has the same mass as a staggering 200,000,000,000,000,000 copies of the sun, researchers say.

Discover Quipu, the universe's largest known structure, spanning 1.3 billion light-years and containing 200 quadrillion solar masses, challenging current cosmological models.

Located about 130 miles from Machu Picchu, Cusco was once a thriving hub for the Inca Empire. Now, it’s a popular tourist spot and an archaeological marvel.

📜 The Inca Empire: Out of Thin Air - There's a lot that we don't know for sure about the Inca Empire, because we have conflicting accounts among Spanish colonizers, as well as the fact that ...