The project could slash travel times to Machu Picchu but increase visitor numbers by up to 200 percent.
Machu Picchu has always been hard to reach, but a new airport will soon change that and bring 200% more visitors to the area ...
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How 200 soldiers took down the Inca Empire

In 1532, Francisco Pizarro led fewer than 200 men against the mighty Inca Empire—and won. This is the shocking story of how steel, disease, and strategy toppled the largest empire in the Americas.
A new bioarchaeological study has identified what researchers describe as the first known case of deliberate mummification applied to a child sacrificed during the Inca capacocha ritual. The finding ...
Why I think the massive and astonishing megalithic architecture of the Andes Mountain range in Peru and Bolivia is much older than the Inca civilization they are attributed to.
Archaeologists uncover the first case of deliberate mummification of an Inca child, shedding new light on ancient Andean rituals.
Inca polities on Peru’s south coast,” says Bongers. “They were particularly famous for their mercantile activity.” The Band ...
Hiking to Machu Picchu has long been on my bucket list. That a 600-year-old abandoned town built by the Incans is still ...
Mohenir Julinho Zapata Rodriguez, director of the Inka Museum, said that through this exhibition, he hopes to deepen the friendship between China and Peru further and narrow the cultural exchange ...
High in the Andes, above the clouds and far from everyday life, archaeologists uncovered a discovery that still feels unreal.
The American Charles E. Peck died in a crash on the Metrolink subway line in California in 2008, but his mobile phone ...
Join the Navy and see the world.” That was the recruiting slogan for the U.S. Navy when I volunteered in 1957. After getting assigned to European shore duty as my first Navy assignment, I was hooked ...