Somewhere deep inside the unforgiving Llanganates mountain range between the Andes and the Amazon is said to exist a fabulous Inca hoard hidden from Spanish conquistadors. The legend begins in the ...

Local legends among the Aymara people, who called the formation the “Devil’s Doorway,” warn that the gate is not to be entered lightly.

The Andes mountain range, located in South America ... Among the most renowned were the Incas, who emerged from the Peruvian highlands in the early 13th century to form a highly advanced society.

Around 40,000 Inca nobles ruled an empire of 12 million conquered people throughout the Andes mountain range in South America. The Incas diverted rivers and used sophisticated irrigation systems ...

To date, over 115 sacred Inca ceremonial sites have been excavated at an elevation over 15,000 feet on some 30 Andean peaks. These high mountain sanctuaries dot the Andes from central Chile to ...

There’s so much more to the Andes than this one site. There are actually many Inca and pre-Inca sites from the mountains just ...

The Inca language, religion, and trade network dominated the Andes. A man chewing coca in a pre-Columbian figure Photograph by DEA/Album Vast amounts of coca, regarded as sacred by the Inca ...

As Peruvian biologist Constantino Aucca Chutas sat chewing coca leaves with a local elder high in the Andes, his companion ...

Machu Picchu is the granddaddy of archeological sites. Set in the Andes Mountains, the site was once an estate for the Inca emperor, as well as a place of worship and education. When the Spanish ...

South Korea will assist Peru with the preservation of Machu Picchu, an Inca-era stone citadel nestled in the eastern Andes ...

But among the holiest places in the empire were mountain peaks, which the Inca and other peoples in the Andes often regarded as representing the origin points of societies, and the resting places ...

Around 40,000 Inca nobles ruled an empire of 12 million conquered people throughout the Andes mountain range in South America. The Incas diverted rivers and used sophisticated irrigation systems ...