Scientists used the quipu’s data to build working spreadsheets, file systems, and encryption tools, rivaling conventional ...

Centuries before the rise of the Inca Empire, a much smaller kingdom on the central coast of Peru already had a sophisticated trade network—one it used to import live parrots across the Andes from the ...

Explore the stunning Inca Temple of the Condor at Ollantaytambo in Peru's Sacred Valley. Discover intricately carved terraces ...

For centuries, tales of secret tunnels beneath the ancient Inca capital of Cusco were considered little more than legends.

Archaeologists were puzzled when they found parrot feathers in a pre-Inca burial in coastal Peru. A new study suggests that ...

The Inca Empire in South America, one of the most powerful pre-Columbian societies, was known for many innovations — such as the architecture of Machu Picchu, an extensive road network, and a system ...

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.

WASHINGTON, DC — Each June in Huinchiri, Peru, four Quechua communities on two sides of a gorge join together to build a bridge out of grass, creating a form of ancient infrastructure that dates back ...

If bones could scream, a bloodcurdling din would be reverberating through a 500-year-old cemetery in Peru. Human skeletons unearthed there have yielded the first direct evidence of Inca fatalities ...

Before smartphones, spreadsheets, or even written alphabets as we know them, the Inca appear to have managed information in a ...