Leonardo Padilla Sacha grew up in the town of Pampas in Huancavelica, Peru. The youngest of eight siblings, Sacha spoke ...

The road to Machu Picchu, which morphs into a railway for its most spectacular sector, begins in the Valle Sagrado, or Sacred ...

As Peruvian biologist Constantino Aucca Chutas sat chewing coca leaves with a local elder high in the Andes, his companion ...

Though the 16th-century Spanish conquistador invasion ended the Inca Empire, the legacy of the Incas lives on in their architectural triumphs—precise, remarkably engineered stoneworks rising ...

In a dry, sunburned valley along Peru’s southern coast, archaeologists have unearthed the remains of 24 people—men, women, ...

Archaeologists in Peru uncoverd a massive circular tomb holding 24 skeletons, revealing signs of ancient violent conflict.

In southern Peru’s Atico River Valley, archaeologists have unearthed a large tomb filled with the battle-scarred skeletons of 24 women, men and children. Interred in various stone enclosures, the two ...

"A thousand years ago we were once part of the magnificent Inca Empire, which also suffered climate change. They planted millions of trees to manage the weather," says Cusco-based Aucca.

Analysis of aerial and satellite images has rapidly identified ancient sites, but human expertise is still essential in ...