Operations in the ancient Incan world would sometimes involve scraping and drilling holes in the skull, a surgery researchers now know was so refined in ancient Peru that survival rates during the ...

"We recovered some archaeological remains that were inside a four-meter deep pit. There we found three funerary bundles containing more than one body with rich grave goods corresponding to the Inca ...

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 ...

A Bolivian woman inspects a Quinoa plant, a variety of grain cultivated in high altitudes, during a visit to the area by journalists with the Bolivian government, to promote the International Year of ...

In a breakthrough discovery, archaeologists have unearthed a hidden labyrinth beneath the historic city of Cusco, Peru, confirming centuries-old rumors of a labyrinth stretching beneath the ancient ...

A 500-year-old frozen Incan mummy suffered from a bacterial lung infection at the time of its death, as revealed by a novel proteomics method that shows evidence of an active pathogenic infection in ...

The city of Cusco seems to hum in anticipation. Villagers dressed in colorful shawls, or chompas, mingle with city-folk and tourists. Processions parade down the cobble stone streets. Horns blare over ...

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has recognized Qhapaq Ñan, an ancient Incan roadway, as a World Heritage site, reports the AFP. As the New York Times ...

KUSA - Actress Carolina Guerra says she's never had as challenging a role as this one. Guerra plays an Incan priestess in the second season of "Da Vinci's Demons." The show is a fictional take on the ...

Peru’s embassy in Cairo inaugurated a photographic exhibition highlighting the cultural legacy of the ancient Inca Trail to ...

A road that is 3,000 years old and spans the length and breadth of the Andes mountain range in six countries finally got the recognition it was seeking as a heritage site protected by UNESCO, the U.N.