Hiking through the Sacred Valley was exhausting, mentally challenging, and at times overwhelming. But standing above Machu ...

Archaeologists studying Peru’s enigmatic “Band of Holes” now believe the site was a pre-Inca marketplace later adapted by the Inca as an accounting system for tribute collection. Drone mapping and ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the true purpose of Monte Sierpe in Peru. This ancient site, featuring thousands of small pits, ...

An extensive remote sensing program carried out over the dense vegetation cover of the Sacsayhuamán Archaeological Park has ...

Researchers say Monte Sierpe’s 5,200 aligned pits once supported trade and accounting, offering a new view of Inca-era ...

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 ...

ASHEBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — A beloved ocelot at the North Carolina Zoo has died less than a year after losing her partner, the zoo announced Tuesday. Inca was 21, well beyond the typical life expectancy ...

The North Carolina Zoo announced the death of Inca, its last ocelot. “Inca lived a long, full life filled with love and enriching experiences thanks to the extraordinary care she received from our ...

Around 500 years ago, four young girls in South America were bashed in the head and sacrificed in a gruesome Inca ritual. Researchers have conducted CT scans of their mummified remains, previously ...

Archaeologists in Bolivia have discovered 135 ancient hilltop sites including an enormous circular structure where they say members of ancient Andean cults would have once worshipped the sun. The ...