The Wari, an ancestor culture to the Incas that flourished throughout the Andean Highlands, expanded their reign largely through trade and semiautonomous colonies, rather than through the iron fist of ...

The Chachapoyas region was conquered by the Inca Empire in the late 15th century. Inca oral histories, written down after the Spanish conquest, claim that the native population was forcibly resettled ...

SANTA CRUZ — A recently published study, co-authored by UC Santa Cruz Anthropology Professor Lars Fehren-Schmitz, analyzing the 500 year-old DNA of those buried near Peru’s iconic Incan citadel Machu ...

When I first looked at background material on the project that became "The Great Inca Rebellion," I had mixed feelings, I must admit. I loved the idea of returning to Peru. I had spent many years ...

What remains of the Inca legacy is limited, as the conquistadors plundered what they could of Inca treasures and in so doing, dismantled the many structures painstakingly built by Inca craftsmen to ...

Peruvian archeologists have identified the earliest documented gunshot victim in the Americas, an Inca warrior who was shot by Spanish conquistadors in 1536 in the aftermath of a battle now known as ...

FILE PHOTO: A man looks at the Coricancha Inca Temple in the city of Cuzco, Peru, February 15, 2010. REUTERS/Enrique Castro-Mendivil / File Photo ...

The Chachapoyas region was conquered by the Inca Empire in the late 15th century. Knowledge of the fate of the local population has been based largely on Inca oral histories, written down only decades ...