Hidden underground tunnel system built by Incas found beneath Cusco - Tunnels mentioned historical accounts in in the ...

High in the Andes mountains of Peru, the city of Cuzco once served as the center of Incan power. Cuzco, also spelled Cusco ...

Archaeologists in Peru have confirmed centuries of speculation that there is an underground tunnel network underneath the historic city of Cusco near Machu Picchu. The researchers found more than a ...

"The riches that were gathered in the city of Cuzco alone, as capital and court of the Empire, were incredible," says an early account of Inca culture written 300 years ago by Jesuit priest Father ...

The Inca Empire was called Tahuantinsuyu, meaning “Four Quarters of the Earth.” Its precise center was considered to be Cuzco's main square, now half its original size and known since the ...

A team of archaeologists announced the discovery of a hidden Inca tunnel network that puzzled scientists for centuries in ...

The legend begins in the 16th century, when the great Inca Empire in western South America was giving way to European invaders. Atahualpa was an Inca king who, after warring with his half-brother ...

Nestled on a mountain ridge in the Urubamba Valley, Machu Picchu was built as a palace that was part of a larger royal estate belonging to the Inca emperor ... the capital of Cuzco, 45 miles ...

The history of the Plaza de Armas stretches back all the way to the Inca Empire when it was called Huacaypata or Aucaypata. The massive square (originally twice its current size) was built as a ...

"The riches that were gathered in the city of Cuzco alone, as capital and court of the Empire, were incredible," says an early account of Inca culture written 300 years ago by Jesuit priest Father ...

Cuzco, also spelled Cusco and named after the Quechua word for “naval or “center,” was built between the 11th and 12th centuries and became the capital of the Inca empire, according to ...