My Peru adventures started out in Lima, the capital of Peru and the city where my mother was born and raised. I was there for ...

The Inca Empire may be the only advanced civilization in history to have no class of traders, and no commerce of any kind within its boundaries. How did they do it? Many aspects of Incan life ...

Hiram Bingham set out to find the last capital cities of the Incas and ended up stumbling across one of the great wonders of ...

The Incan Temple of the Sun in Cusco has long been a visual and cultural jewel of the ancient empire. But there’s even more ...

A pre-Hispanic mummy dating back 1,000 years was recently found by utility workers in Lima, Peru, with archaeologists linking it to the Chancay culture that predated the Inca Empire.

The first tells of how Manco Capac and Mama Ocllo, the children of the Sun God, came to found the Inca Empire in Cusco valley after traveling over 500 kilometers (311 miles) from Lake Titicaca.

The Inca Empire has a population of 10 million people and a land area of over 900,000 square kilometers, once used to be the largest empire in the Western Hemisphere. He had a centralized ...

Inca Empire dazzled, then died March 7, 2002 Posted: 10:41 AM EST (1541 GMT) The Inca Empire, rich in gold, was a target of the conquistadors By Janice McDonald CNN CUZCO, Peru (CNN) -- It was one ...

Writings by Spanish conquistadors, said to be based on Incan oral histories, say that after years of resistance the Chachapoyas were conquered by the Inca empire and forced to disperse and ...

The researchers found a clear improvement in cranial surgery on the coastal regions and the Andean highlands of Peru, which led to a high survival rate in the 15th- and 16th-century Inca empire.