Located about 130 miles from Machu Picchu, Cusco was once a thriving hub for the Inca Empire. Now, it’s a popular tourist spot and an archaeological marvel. Tim Newcomb is a journalist based in ...

Five hundred years after the Spanish conquest, the original inhabitants of Tawantinsuyu are still alive in the form of awe-inspiring temples, palaces, and fortresses that have stood the test of time, ...

The dug-out passages may follow the exact path of the Inca capital’s aboveground roads Sonja Anderson Daily Correspondent Spanish settlers knocked down all but the foundations of the Temple of ...

Descended in part from Inca colonists sent here more than ... 4,500 rebellious subjects to work hauling immense stone blocks all the way from Cusco—a distance of nearly a thousand miles up ...

Researchers used sound testing and a radar to identify the tunnels’ location and reveal that the walls, likely constructed with stone and ... Under Inca rule, Cusco was developed into a complex ...

Cusco, once the illustrious ... Their mortarless stone constructions exhibit an astonishing level of precision, which has helped many Inca sites survive centuries of natural disasters.

Following up on a tip by a 17th century Jesuit monk, researchers discover an Inca tunnel network under Cusco. (photo credit ... enormous trenches lined with stone walls, ceilings, and carved ...