The Incas built a vast empire without the wheel, powerful draft animals, iron working, currency or a writing system.

The Incas were masters of their harsh climate, archaeologists are finding—and the ancient civilization has a lot to teach us today ...

In 1911, local farmers in Peru led American explorer Hiram Bingham to the ruins of Machu Picchu, an Incan city built high in the Andes Mountains, introducing the outside world to this ...

And we know that the Incas played with their histories, that each of the different royal kin groups in Cuzco had its own version of Inca history, and they were competing with one another.

The 500-year-old skull, found in a long-forgotten Inca cemetery outside Lima, Peru, had two round holes just across from each other. Nearby was a plug of bone, recovered intact, that carried the ...

The ancient Incan Empire once ruled much of the Andes and despite being defeated by the Spanish it has left historical and cultural legacies in the region.

The mummy of an Incan child who was sacrificed to the gods more than 500 years ago belonged to a previously unknown offshoot of an ancient Native American lineage, new research finds. The child, a ...

This small gold model of a llama is a fitting offering for an Inca mountain god. The Incas revered gold as the sweat of the sun and believed that it represented the sun's regenerative powers. All ...

Incan fortresses built some 500 years ago have been discovered along an extinct volcano in northern Ecuador, revealing evidence of a war fought by the Inca just before the Spanish conquistadors ...

I wondered if it was still possible to detour from the modern, tourist path and arrive in the same way Bingham had — by taking the scenic route into Inca history.

The growth of the Inca Empire can only be described as meteoric. Though precise dates for its beginnings remain elusive, the realm known to the Inca as Tahuantinsuyu, or "The Four Parts Together ...