Foreign tourists wait on a football field to be evacuated by rescue helicopters in Aguas Calientes, near Machu Picchu in 2010 Credit: AP Peruvian soldiers try to control foreign tourists clamouring to ...

Hiram Bingham called Machu Picchu “the most important ruin discovered in South America since the Spanish conquest.” Ivan Kashinsky and Karla Gachet The last stretch of road that the emperor of the ...

There are ways to explore this popular UNESCO World Heritage Site — and help protect it for generations to come.

On the morning of July 24, 1911, an enterprising lecturer-explorer from Yale University set off in a cold drizzle to investigate rumors of ancient Inca ruins in Peru. The explorer chopped his way ...