UCLA art history professor Stella Nair is collaborating with an interdisciplinary team analyzing a unique Inca building that dates to the mid-15th century. The building, in the remote town of Huaytará ...

Rising from obscurity to the heights of power, a succession of Andean rulers subdued kingdoms, sculpted mountains, and forged a mighty empire.

Archaeologists are preparing to investigate a possible Inca ceremonial geoglyph discovered at an altitude of approximately ...

More than a mile of ancient Inca roadways, long hidden beneath dense tropical vegetation, have been discovered near famous Machu Picchu.

Inca bureaucrats recorded all the goings-on in their bustling empire using knotted cords called khipu, where the position and order of the knots represented numbers. They relied on the khipu system to ...

Pedro Groover.l More than 500 years ago, a teenage girl climbed (or was brought) nearly to the summit of one of the highest ...

Known for their impressive fortifications, terraces, and royal residences—including Machu Picchu—the Inca Empire dominated ...