While the world-famous Inca Trail is undoutedly Peru’s headline hike, the Quarry Trail is a less-crowded alternative that’s just as rewarding.

The post Advanced Analysis Of Inca “Hair Records” Show That Everyday People Used This Technique Of Records Keeping, Using Their Own Hair first on TwistedSifter. For years, historians believed that only trained Inca specialists were responsible for handling the records of emperors.

The snake on this Wari vessel (800-1000 AD) represented a sacred animal symbolically linked with water and fertility. Ernest Amoroso, NMAI/SI A belt (ca. 1450) made from the shell of a mollusk Spondylus princeps that was highly valued and closely ...

"Land of the Four Quarters" or Tahuantinsuyu is the name the Inca gave to their empire. It stretched north to south some 2,500 miles along the high mountainous Andean range from Colombia to Chile and reached west to east from the dry coastal desert called ...

Researchers have uncovered fascinating new insights into an ancient mountaintop settlement high up in the Peruvian Andes, which pre-dates the famous Inca site of Machu Picchu. National Geographic explorer Albert Lin—along with archaeologists Adan Choqque ...

The Peruvian town of Huaytará is home to a 15th-century Inca building that’s unusually simple for the civilization, which is known for its intricate architecture, like the structures seen across Machu Picchu. This building, in contrast, consists of ...

Arrive in Lima, meet your guide and transfer to Belmond Miraflores Park, where you'll spend two nights. Set on a green promenade overlooking the Pacific in fashionable Miraflores, this much-loved hotel is the perfect base to explore. After breakfast ...

A deceptively simple feat of agricultural engineering helped the Inca to build the largest empire in South American history. In the 15th and early 16th Centuries, a small island in Lake Titicaca was one of South America's most important religious sites.

While the ancient Egyptians may be the best-known mummy makers, they were far from the first. A very sophisticated fishing tribe called the Chinchoros, who lived on the north coast of what is now Chile, were embalming their dead as early as 5000 B.C ...

One look at recent images released by the European Space Agency may cause you to wonder if spiders are on the cusp of bursting forth onto the Martian surface. But arachnophobes have nothing to fear, even if the Mars orbiter images appear to suggest that ...