They put the Inca leader on trial, convicted him, and sentenced him to death. Atahualpa was executed on July 26, 1533. (Meet Peru’s first women porters.) For a while, Cajamarca became the ...

Researchers in Peru have considerably expanded the known footprint of Gran Pajatén, a pre-Hispanic settlement of the ...

There are just four villages in the Peruvian Andes where khipus are kept, though the knowledge of how to read them was lost ...

Inkaterra Hacienda Urubamba is an atmospheric boutique hotel perfectly positioned at the heart of the ancient Incan ...

Built by the Chachapoya civilisation, known as the “people of the cloud forest”, the structures are located within a Unesco ...

Juan Pablo de la Puente Brunke, the World Monuments Fund representative in Peru, emphasized the importance of this discovery.

UNESCO World Heritage Sites represent some of the most breathtaking landscapes with extraordinary cultural and natural ...

Bingham describes a part of the work accomplished by the four expeditions of Yale University and the National Geographical Society to Peru between ... exploration of the ruins of Machu Picchu ...

Utahn Gary Bybee, 86, hiked Peru's Inca Trail earlier this month, reportedly becoming the oldest person ever to complete the ...

Unearthed in Peru, the small underground room may have been used for rituals involving psychoactive drugs. New research suggests these "exclusive" events were reserved for the elite ...