A diver with a bowl recovered from the Tiwanaku site. (Teddy Seguin) The mysterious Inca Empire is a source of endless ...

Rising from obscurity to the heights of power, a succession of Andean rulers subdued kingdoms, sculpted mountains, and forged ...

Long before modern refrigeration, the ancient Inca Empire was preserving food for years and moving it across vast distances.

An exhibition merging ancient American civilizations with botanical wonders opens at the Shanghai Expo Culture Park. [Photo ...

Archaeologists have uncovered skeletal remains that went unnoticed in the heart of this pre-Inca fortress. A milestone of the ...

Archaeologists at Peru's Tambo Viejo site uncovered centuries-old freeze-dried potatoes, offering evidence that the Inca ...

In a rare find, archaeologists in Peru have discovered freeze-dried potatoes that the Inca carried hundreds of miles from the ...

Two small, wrinkled lumps of potato were found buried inside a ceramic jar on the floor of an ancient storage room on the ...

Three decades ago, researchers working atop the Llullaillaco volcano, located on the border between Argentina and Chile, discovered exceptionally well-preserved remains. The find included the ...

Cuzco’s UNESCO-protected historic center layers Spanish colonial churches atop sections of ancient Incan walls in what is ...

New radiocarbon dating of the ‘Llullaillaco Maiden’ appears to rule out a response to natural disasters or Inca campaigns of conquest.