Hiking amid Andean peaks, ancient ruins—and no crowds—on this 19,000-mile stone path from Colombia to Argentina. Trekkers and pack llamas make their way along the Qhapaq Ñan in Peru. One stretch of ...

Columbus wasn't the first European to reach the Western Hemisphere; the Vikings had landed in Newfoundland about 500 years ...

Alex Chepstow-Lusty has received funding from NERC, CNRS and the French Institute of Andean Studies. Many tropical glaciers in the Andes are expected to disappear in the next few decades. Their ...

The knotted, intricately braided string was like no other anthropologist Sabine Hyland had ever seen. Called a khipu, such devices were typically made and used by Inca elite to record astronomical ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

Utility workers excavating trenches to expand an underground gas network in the capital of Peru unearthed two pre-Incan tombs on Thursday that are more than 1,000 years old. One of the tombs was empty ...

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Francisco Pizarro Spanish conquistador portrait illustration 1882 Francisco Pizarro González ( c.1471 - 26.June 1541 ) was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that conquered the Inca Empire.

Legends associated with the lost treasures of Incan gold thought to be located at the bottom of one of the many shafts of what is called the hawks nest above the city of Cusco Peru are presented These ...

His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.