The canals led to several places around a stone-lined pool known as the Water Temple. Bray and Echeverría think that in the aftermath of that bloodshed, the Inca built the pool as part of a ...

Inca: Temple Of The Condor At Ollantaytambo, Sacred Valley Of PeruThis symbolic temple reflects the spiritual beliefs of the Inca, carved with precision into the Sacred Valley’s bedrock.

Archaeologists in Peru have discovered ancient temple ruins that could predate the Inca empire. The temple on the periphery of the Sacsayhuaman fortress includes 11 rooms thought to have held mummies ...

At times stretching more than a mile, the labyrinth connected the Temple of the Sun to key points, such as a fortress. Incan builders made use of what’s known as the cut-and-cover method of ...

The Inca built more than 80 temples and other structures for a variety of rituals on the Isla del Sol, or Island of the Sun, in the southern part of the lake in Bolivia, where their origin myth ...

A temple burial discovered in Peru from roughly 3,800 years ago pre-dates the rise of the Incan Empire. Archaeologists found four skeletal remains, all laid facing the mountains, the source of ...

In Peru’s 11,152-foot-high city of Cusco, after a solid night’s sleep in a former monastery with oxygen pumped into my room, I joined local throngs at the colonial town square where the last ...

A carving of a human with a bird’s head and a painting were found at the ancient temple. Peru Ministry of Culture Before the Spanish conquest of Peru, the Inca were an expansive culture known ...

An ancient Peruvian temple discovered under a sand dune is rewriting what we know about civilizations that lived up to 3,500 years before the Inca. The temple reveals the early emergence of ...