"It's been 16 years since I started doing this," recounts Johan Reinhard, easily the world's leading high altitude cultural anthropologist and archaeologist. "I began very much interested in ...

Centuries of archaeological research on the Inca Empire has netted a veritable library of knowledge. But new digital and data-driven projects are proving that there is much more to discover about ...

For centuries, the vanished Inca fortress of Ancocagua existed only in lore. Now, at a mountaintop site in Peru, researchers are zeroing in on a discovery that could reshape what we know of the empire ...

For centuries, tales of secret tunnels beneath the ancient Inca capital of Cusco were considered little more than legends. Today, archaeology is beginning to substantiate these claims in the ruins ...

LIMA, PERU—According to a Reuters report, a bathing complex built by the Inca some 500 years ago has been discovered in central Peru’s Huanuco Pampa archaeological zone, which is situated along a ...

Despite its title, “The Lost Inca Gold: AI Meets Space Archaeology,” is a love letter to Maine at its core. Dr. William Wood, the author, is not only from Rockland but attended The University of Maine ...

LIMA, April 14 (Reuters) - Archaeologists in the Peruvian Andes have discovered an Inca bathing complex built half a millennia ago, which they believe may have served the elite of the sprawling empire ...

There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science ...

While installing new gas lines just beneath the busy streets of Lima, Peru, utility workers unearthed an unexpected archaeological bounty: eight pre-Inca mummies and a wealth of artifacts. "We are ...

In fact, it would seem that nothing stops Johan from his high altitude archaeological explorations. He holds the world's high altitude scuba dive record. At 19,200 feet on Licancabur he made a very ...