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

I spent several months hiking in Peru's Sacred Valley, and it's easily one of the most incredible places I've ever visited. Not only will you get to experience glorious trails weaving from Cusco ...

To date, over 115 sacred Inca ceremonial sites have been excavated ... dot the Andes from central Chile to southern Peru. All of the sites are located in the region of the two southernmost Inca ...

The Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, the crown jewel of Peru's tourist sites, reopened on Sunday with an ancient ritual after a nearly eight-month lockdown due to the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Peru. The path leads to the imposing Machu Picchu, the sacred city of the fascinating Inca empire, which paid tribute to the universe with ceremonial sites dedicated to the planets and stars. Today, ...

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.

The Inca language, religion, and trade network dominated the Andes. A man chewing coca in a pre-Columbian figure Photograph by DEA/Album Vast amounts of coca, regarded as sacred by the Inca ...

Machu Picchu is the granddaddy of archeological sites ... once an estate for the Inca emperor, as well as a place of worship and education. When the Spanish conquered Peru, Machu Picchu was ...

Very little is known about Capacocha, the sacred Inca ceremony of human sacrifice, but with each new archaeological discovery of a sacrificial mummy, more is revealed. The earliest and only known ...

The Capacocha ritual was one of the most significant religious ceremonies in the Inca ... sacrifice sites have been discovered, primarily on mountaintops in northern Chile, southern Peru, and ...