Hiram Bingham set out to find the last capital cities of the Incas and ended up stumbling across one of the great wonders of the world. Perched high in the Andes Mountains northwest of Cuzco is one of ...

For centuries, the vanished Inca fortress of Ancocagua existed only in lore. Now, at a mountaintop site in Peru, researchers ...

LOOKING over at the stunning ancient ruins of Machu Picchu really takes your breath away — mind you, being 2,400 metres above ...

This National Geographic Society Yale University Peruvian Expedition explored and excavated the ruins of Machu Picchu, which had been discovered during an expedition to Peru in 1911 by explorers ...