Cerro El Cono, a unique mountain, stands tall in Peru's Amazon. Its shape resembles a pyramid. Locals believe it is a sacred ...

The Tiwanaku civilization thrived high in the Andes Mountains long before the Inca Empire started. Located near Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, the millennia-old city of Tiwanaku was built almost 13,000 ...

For five months, and with the savings accumulated over 11 years of work, José will travel across 15 countries along the East Coast of the United States, Central America and South America ...

The Huallamarca pyramid sits in Lima's upscale San Isidro neighborhood, surrounded by homes, ... The ancient Inca ruins of Machu Picchu in Peru, seen on Feb. 15, 2023.

A newly discovered temple in the Bolivian Andes once served as ceremonial crossroads where llama caravans carrying ...

The pre-Inca pyramid dwellers likely presided over important rituals, feasted on roasted llama and guinea pig, and drank corn beer, according to archaeologists working at the site.

Ecuador Builds Pyramid Of Roses In Attempt To Set A World Record Half a million flowers went into the structure, which is a replica of a pre-Incan pyramid.

He thinks burial in the Pyramid of the Bees may have held “great significance for them to be buried there.” To read more about ritual in the Inca Empire, go to "The Water Temple of Inca-Caranqui." ...

A mummy thought to be around 1,000 years old has been discovered in Peru. Researchers discovered the mummy, which belonged to the pre-Inca Ychsma culture, during excavations at the Huaca Pucllana ...

An apparent ritual mass sacrifice—including decapitations and a royal beer bash—is coming to light near a pre-Inca pyramid in northern Peru, archaeologists say.. Excavations next to the ...

The pyramid was built over 5,000 years ago, even before the pyramids of Egypt and Mesopotamia, ... they focused on cultures like the Inca of the Andes or the Nazca of the Pacific Coast.