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

Now a popular tourist destination and jumping-off point for treks to Machu Picchu, Cusco was the capital of the powerful Inca ...

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

A team of archaeologists announced the discovery of a hidden Inca tunnel network that puzzled scientists for centuries in ...

Archaeologists uncover secret Inca underground streets beneath Cusco, revealing a sophisticated ancient road network.

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

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 ...

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

“This suggests that at least part of the Amazon was more fully integrated into the Inca Empire in ways that scholars hadn’t appreciated before,” Burger says. “Amazonian people weren’t ...

The Inca Empire was called Tahuantinsuyu, meaning “Four Quarters of the Earth.” Its precise center was considered to be Cuzco ...

All gold belonged to the ruler of the empire, the Inca himself, who claimed to be descended from the sun god. Llamas were the Incas' most important domestic animal, providing food, clothing and ...

They were also used by a variety of cultures, from the Caral-Supe civilization, which thrived during the third millennium B.C.E., to the continent-spanning Inca Empire and its predecessors.