Centuries before the Inca emerged, Amazonian parrots were carried alive across the Andes and raised in captivity on Peru's coast for their vibrant feathers.

The Inca Empire practiced a form of Communism, prioritizing collective survival and state-mandated labor without money or ...

Part I. Regions and research -- Research projects and field and laboratory methods / R. Alan Covey, Véronique Bélisle, and Allison R. Davis -- Environment and ecology in the Hanan Cuzco Region / R.

For nearly five centuries, something ancient has waited beneath Cusco, Peru’s cobblestone streets. While tourists photograph colonial churches and Inca stonework above, an extraordinary mystery has ...

Roughly a century before the Inca empire came to power in A.D. 1400, blasts of human-produced thunder may have rumbled off a ridge high in the Andes Mountains. New evidence indicates that people who ...

LIMA, PERU—According to a Reuters report, a bathing complex built by the Inca some 500 years ago has been discovered in central Peru’s Huanuco Pampa archaeological zone, which is situated along a ...

The existence of a tunnel network under the ancient Peruvian city of Cusco had been rumored for centuries. At times stretching more than a mile, the labyrinth connected the Temple of the Sun to key ...