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 ...

A CHILLING discovery has been made in a 700-year-old mass grave that contains the bodies of 76 sacrificed children. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to several French nutrition and public health researchers, the National Academy of Medicine, the French Academy of ...

The first known Incas, a noble family who ruled Cuzco and a small surrounding high Andean agricultural state, date back to A.D. 1200. The growth of the empire beyond Cuzco began in 1438 when ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...