The Inca Trail draws large crowds, which can compromise your hike's quality. If you crave quieter treks with even better ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hiking the Inca Trail is also highly sought-after ... This Region of Peru Has Incredible Ancient Ruins — Without Machu Picchu's Crowds Peru's Colca Canyon Is Twice As Deep As the Grand Canyon ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...