Buried inside a broken clay pot for five centuries, a pair of ancient potatoes has stunned archaeologists in Peru. What they ...

Archaeologists at Peru's Tambo Viejo site uncovered centuries-old freeze-dried potatoes, offering evidence that the Inca ...

Two small, wrinkled lumps of potato were found buried inside a ceramic jar on the floor of an ancient storage room on the ...

The Inca recognized the importance of guano and the islands where the so-called guano birds breed as central to the survival of their civilization — and they responded by implementing the first ever ...

Three decades ago, researchers working atop the Llullaillaco volcano, located on the border between Argentina and Chile, ...

A deceptively simple feat of agricultural engineering helped the Inca to build the largest empire in South American history. In the 15th and early 16th Centuries, a small island in Lake Titicaca was ...

In 1533, the Inca Empire was the largest in the world. Stretching from modern-day Chile to Ecuador, it included more than 10 million people who spoke at least 30 different languages. But by the end of ...

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Do long-dead builders have the answer to more sustainable road development? A new exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC shows why the Incan kingdom built a lasting infrastructure.

The ancient Inca wonder of Machu Picchu, perched 8,000 feet above sea level on a ridge in the Peruvian Andes, was a royal estate for the legendary warrior Pachacuti, who was largely responsible for ...