Jose and I set out as well, though in a fashion more comfortable than Bingham. We take the Inca Rail, which spirals into the valley like the shell of a nautilus.
With an empire whose beginning predates the arrival of Europeans in the Americas, the Incas were fueled by a diet made up of nutritionally dense, new world foods. Here are five of them.
By: Joseph Castro, LiveScience Contributor Published: 07/25/2012 05:05 PM EDT on LiveScience The so-called Maiden mummy of a 15-year-old Incan g...
WASHINGTON, July 12 (Reuters) - U.S. authorities returned 14 stolen and looted paintings and artifacts to Peru on Thursday, including four archaeolo...
I moved to the final room. There, in the center of a glass case was Juanita, her hands folded and her knees bent towards her chest.
While each village continues to add their own personal flavor, the core traditions of the Quechua people are still the a vibrant thread in Peru's fashion scene.
Writer Mark Adams looks, as Jon Stewart puts it in the clip below, like a mix of Jon "I'm a P.C." Hodgman and Drew Carey, but that didn't stop him fro...
In 2010, the well-known Brazilian television actress Drica Moraes was diagnosed with acute leukemia and received a bone marrow transplant in São Paul...
For millennia, the weather has played a key and pivotal role in the rise and fall of civilizations in the Andes. Yet now in a warming world many are bewildered and don't know what will come next.
Glaucineis Martins da Silva, or the Paraguay Division soccer player known as Inca, scored an incredible goal off of a free kick last weekend. In a mat...
LIMA, Peru — Heavy rains and mudslides in Peru blocked the train route to the ancient Inca citadel of Machu Picchu on Monday, keeping nearly 2,0...
