For centuries, the 5,200 mystery holes scattered across the Peruvian Andes have baffled archaeologists. These pits, each ...

The meteoric rise of the Incan empire between 1400 and 1532 was driven by a sustained period of warmer weather, new research on Peruvian lake sediments suggests. The sediments, from a core going back ...

The Lexington Field and Garden Club will bring Norma Jane Langford and her presentation “Green Gold: Machu Picchu and the Gardens of the Incas” to the National Heritage Museum at 33 Marrett Road in ...

Ñawpa Pacha: Journal of Andean Archaeology ("antiquity" in the Inca language) is the oldest, most prestigious peer-reviewed journal in Andean studies. Founded in 1963 by John Rowe at University of ...

The seeds of the Inca Empire were planted about 2,700 years ago when a warm spell combined with piles of llama excrement allowed maize agriculture to take root high up in the South American Andes, ...