Peruvian archeologists have unearthed the first full Inca burial site at Machu Picchu since the famous mountaintop citadel was discovered 90 years ago, officials said. “It’s important because nothing ...

Today, Machu Picchu is among South America’s most visited historical sites. Here are amazing things we know about this legacy ...

The site covers some 80,000 acres. UNESCO named it a World Heritage Site in 1983. Dave Mason When Hiram Bingham, a young Yale professor, discovered Machu Picchu in 1911, he found a site overrun with ...

Hidden in the clouds of Peru, Machu Picchu stayed secret for over 400 years. No maps. No records. Not even the Spanish found it. Was this ancient city lost… or hidden on purpose..

When the Spanish conquistadors showed up hungry for gold in the 1530s, there were fewer than 200 of them, but they had guns and horses and the luck to arrive during an Incan civil war. In short order, ...

Built high in the Peruvian Andes on the western edge of the Amazon Basin, the Inca stronghold of Machu Picchu has astounded and confounded visitors since it was unveiled to the wider world more than ...

When Kim Pemberton made the journey to Machu Picchu last November, she found that while the ruins themselves remain largely ...