Together with the discovery of Inca-period pottery near the band ... Many of the khipus were associated with the remains of various agricultural produce, such as peanuts and chilies, that had ...

This story appears in the April 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. On the remote Peruvian island of Taquile, in the middle of the great Lake Titicaca, hundreds of people stand in silence ...

Andean populations created these characteristic agricultural terraces on the hillsides. The Inca system for growing and harvesting coca leaves involved many steps. The plants were grown in clear ...

As far as whether level was important to the Inca, we know that it was because they were masters at managing water in their agricultural complexes. We do not however know how they managed to ...

A CHILLING discovery has been made in a 700-year-old mass grave that contains the bodies of 76 sacrificed children. The Peruvian find comes from a civilisation that predated the Inca with the ...

Between the 15th and 20th centuries, just 10 European countries colonized nearly the whole world. Colonization brought ...

Indigenous Runasimi-speaking campesinos, in fact, using its pristine Incan agricultural terraces for subsistence farming themselves, had led Bingham to Machu Picchu. An earlier Peruvian explorer a ...

Throughout the Andes, public works ordained by the emperors of the Incas dominate and transform the natural landscape. Cities, temples and fortresses of stone, marvelously engineered roads cut through ...

Visiting Peru – and specifically walking the Inca Trail – had been a vague ... we started our ascent up an agricultural track ...

Ancient complex societies, with some much older than others, formed cultural and technological advances that have shaped our ...