At the height of their power, the Inca Empire ruled Tawantinsuyu, a region that spanned from southern Colombia to central Chile. It was the largest pre-Columbian empire in South America until shortly ...
A multinational South American team from Peru, Brasil and Bolivia led by the Universidad de San Martin de Porres at Lima, Peru, published the first genetic study on the modern descendants of the ...
The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content. While today we use the term Inca to refer to all people who were ruled under the empire – from ...
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A spectacular burial site of 20 tombs for the pre-Inca nobility of Sican has been discovered in northern Peru, in one of the most significant finds in the country in years, officials say. The ...
Yesterday, I visited the world class Inca ruins at Machu Picchu. Despite it being a cloudy, foggy, rainy day (it is that season, after all), it was a very impressive experience, one I cannot recommend ...
Experts are planning to study the archeological sites buried under a former imperial capital in Peru to map out relics hidden below the historic city. The study of Cusco, the capital of the ancient ...
Researchers in Peru believe they have traced the origins of the Incas -- the largest pre-Hispanic civilization in the Americas -- through the DNA of the modern-day descendants of their emperors. From ...