For more than a millennium, many Andean peoples used an object called a "khipu" (also spelled "quipu" and pronounced "key-poo ...

Rising from obscurity in Peru's Cusco Valley during the 13th century, a royal Inca dynasty charmed, bribed, intimidated, or conquered its rivals to create the largest pre-Columbian empire in the ...

There is not a ton of evidence of what education looked like in ancient society, but we do know it existed - although not for ...

Did you know that Machu Picchu was once home to around 750 people? It was constructed between 1438 and 1470 by Emperor Pachacutec. This historic site is rich in culture, attracting both scholars and ...

The legend begins in the 16th century, when the great Inca Empire in western South America was giving way to European invaders. Atahualpa was an Inca king who, after warring with his half-brother ...

Get your Indiana Jones-style fedora ready for a modern-day armchair expedition of places rediscovered after centuries—and ...

this NOVA/National Geographic special presents new evidence that is changing what we know about the final days of the once-mighty Inca Empire. This probing story of archeological discovery begins ...

THE OLDEST LIVING CITY IN THE AMERICAS. THIS IS CUSCO, PERU, THE CAPITAL OF THE INCAN EMPIRE. IT’S ALIVE AND IT’S UP THERE AT 11,000FT. THE ELEVATION IS MORE THAN TWICE AS HIGH AS DENVER.

A golden sun and immortal bird ornament, along with a massive bronze mask and altar from the Sanxingdui and Jinsha ruins in ...

Lost Countries of South America, Laurence Blair makes the case for the region. Blair, a British journalist living in Paraguay, tells the stories of nine South American ‘nations’ that either broke up, ...

What were khipus used for? While khipus were used in earlier times, they were especially important to the Inca Empire, which ...