The stone, which sustained damage in six spots, had been carved to fit perfectly in a palace wall hundreds of years ago ...

"Land of the Four Quarters" or Tahuantinsuyu is the name the Inca gave to their empire. It stretched north to south some 2,500 miles along the high mountainous Andean range from Colombia to Chile ...

Literally "old mountain" in Quechua, Peru's dominant indigenous language, Machu Picchu is built into peaks more than 2,400 ...

Then, Bingham removed numerous artifacts and human remains from the ... world to one of the greatest archaeological sites of the Incan Empire — one that continues to fascinate historians to ...

Peru Ministry of Culture Cusco is a city in the south of Peru, seated in the Sacred Valley of the Andes, and was once the capital of the Inca Empire. Google Translate was used to translate the ...

boasts an eclectic assortment of Incan artifacts. From textiles to pottery to gold and metal pieces, the museum will intrigue visitors who want an introduction to Incan culture and history.

To the Incan eye, the landscape of their empire was riddled with shrines. Often these were inanimate objects like rocks and streams. But among the holiest places in the empire were mountain peaks ...