He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

A remarkable discovery of underground tunnels beneath Cusco’s historic district is offering fresh insights into Inca ...

Two Peruvian archaeologists claim to have discovered underground passages in Cusco, Peru, that were supposedly built by the ...

It’s long been rumored that a network of old, underground tunnels lies beneath Cusco, Peru, the capital of the ancient Incan ...

Archaeologists in Peru have confirmed the existence of a mile-long underground tunnel network beneath the historic city of ...

The Incan Temple of the Sun in Cusco has long been a visual and cultural jewel of the ancient empire. But there’s even more ...

Inca tunnel entry in Peru. Credit: Nathan Gibbs – CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr. A team of archaeologists in Peru announced they uncovered a hidden Inca tunnel network that puzzled scientists for ...

In the next phase, they employed advanced technology, including ground-penetrating radar and acoustic prospecting, to map out the tunnel ... of the powerful Inca Empire in the 15th century before ...

The tunnel network, known as a Chinkana, stretches over 1,750 metres at a depth of up to 2.5 metres, and is evidence of Cusco’s centrality to the Inca Empire, the largest nexus of power in Pre ...

The researchers examined around 100 mummies from coastal Peru’s Chancay culture – a civilization that flourished before the Inca empire and the arrival of Europeans. All the individuals had ...

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 ...

The researchers examined around 100 mummies from coastal Peru’s Chancay culture – a civilization that flourished before the Inca empire and the arrival of Europeans. All the individuals had ...