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

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 ...

A visit to the former Inca Empire reveals epic feats of construction and engineering that have withstood the test of time, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Dr Jago Cooper travels through Peru and Ecuador to reassess the origins, accomplishments and nature of one of the greatest empires the world has ever seen.

Carhua was a ten-year old Inca child whose father offered her to the Inca Emperor as a Capacocha sacrifice. She was taken by priests to Cuzco where she met the Inca Emperor, and on her return ...