The forbidden ancient city Machu Picchu was a lost city for more than 100 years. It was believed that the city remained unknown to the world until July 24, 1911 when Yale professor Hiram Bingham III ...

SALKANTAY PASS, Peru – Our hiking group had reached the highest point of our trek through the Andes to Machu Picchu. Now our guide was leading us in a Quechua ritual. We took turns placing stones in ...

Machu Picchu: A multinational team of scientists examined the ancient DNA of over 30 persons who were buried at Machu Picchu and were probably attendants to the Incan elite. They compared the genetic ...

Firefighters have been battling the blaze that spread after local farmers burnt grass and debris in the area on Tuesday, according to Reuters. The mayor of the nearby city of Cusco said the fire had ...

It was the Mayans, not the Incans, who were behind the 12/12/12 doomsday predictions. But that doesn't mean that a view of the ancient ruins at Machu Picchu isn't a worthwhile thing to keep track of ...

Literally "old mountain" in Quechua, Peru's dominant indigenous language, Machu Picchu is built into peaks more than 2,400 meters above sea level in southern Peru, where the Andes and the Amazon Basin ...

The ruined city known as the "cradle of gold" was once a mountaintop refuge of Incan royalty, with elegant halls and plazas much like those of fabled Macchu Picchu just 30 miles (50 kilometers away).

WHAT once was known as a lost city might today be described more accurately as an Inca Camp David. Ninety-seven years after the discovery of Machu Picchu in the Andes, the site continues to reveal its ...