The fabled route leading to Machu Picchu is one of the world's most jaw-droppingly beautiful treks – but it's also plagued by ...

On an island in Lake Titicaca that was sacred to the ancient Tiwanaku culture, young craft vendors wait for tourists. When the Inca conquered the Tiwanaku, they incorporated the sanctity of this ...

Peru’s history dates back over 5,000 years, making it an intoxicating and addictive destination for history enthusiasts.

The girl was only 13 years old when she was sacrificed to the gods but had been frozen in time for hundreds of years when a ...

confirming centuries-old rumors of a labyrinth stretching beneath the ancient capital of the Inca Empire. This newly uncovered marvel, called a chincana, offers fresh insights into the ...

While the ancient Egyptians may be the best-known mummy ... under the floor of their existing homes. By the time of the Inca civilization, which lasted from approximately 1100 to 1500 A.D ...

This small gold model of a llama is a fitting offering for an Inca mountain god. The Incas revered gold as the sweat of the sun and believed that it represented the sun's regenerative powers.

Steeped in death, conquest, desire, and mystery, the legend of the lost Inca gold is guarded by remote, mist-veiled mountains in central Ecuador. Somewhere deep inside the unforgiving Llanganates ...

At over 6,000 metres, Mt Ampato is one of the highest mountains in Peru, and a place were the Inca used in one of their most dramatic and powerful religious ceremonies: human sacrifice.