High in the Andes mountains of Peru, the city of Cuzco once served as the center of Incan power. Cuzco, also spelled Cusco ...

There's a lot that we don't know for sure about the Inca Empire, because we have conflicting accounts among Spanish ...

Life of a Dead Emperor - To understand daily life in the Inca Empire, we travel from Cusco to Quito (located in modern-day ...

Lasers are typically used to remove tattoos from the skin with mixed results. These tight beams of light can also reveal the ...

Guests can experience the Chilean Fjords, Glacier Alley, and new for this season: Pío XI Glacier, the Southern Hemisphere' ...

Scientists used advanced laser scans to study 1,200-year-old tattoos on mummified individuals from the pre-Columbian Chancay culture, which developed along coastal Peru between 900AD and 1533AD.

WASHINGTON (AP) — For more than 5,000 years, humans have adorned themselves with tattoos. In a new study, researchers used ...

Peru's most famous site is changing. Two leading travel specialists reveal their strategies for the perfect visit in 2025 ...

A recent expedition in Ecuador's Llanganates Mountains reignited hope in the centuries-long quest to uncover the lost treasure of Inca Emperor Atahualpa. Led by photographer Jorge Juan Anhalzer, a ...

The absence of modern-day calculators did not stop ancient cultures from performing extraordinary feats of mathematics. The ancient Greeks kept count with abaci, frames with rods or grooves for ...

This small gold model of a llama is a fitting offering for an Inca mountain god. The Incas revered gold as the sweat of the sun and believed that it represented the sun's regenerative powers.

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