The Wari used beer mixed with psychedelics to help build an empire in Peru around 1,200 years ago, a new study suggests.

Experts have shed new light on how the Inca civilization used “trophy heads” to maintain control over conquered peoples. At its height in the 16th century, the Inca Empire spanned modern-day Peru, as ...

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The Wari, an ancestor culture to the Incas that flourished throughout the Andean Highlands, expanded their reign largely through trade and semiautonomous colonies, rather than through the iron fist of ...

Workers expanding gas lines accidentally dug up eight mummies in Lima, Peru. The mummies are older than Incan culture and were likely buried hundreds of years ago. Over years of expanding gas lines, ...

When we met our driver, Manuel, in Cuzco, Peru, we had suspicions about his verbal résumé almost immediately. "I speak English," Manuel said. That was the last thing he said to us in English.

Thinking of hiking Peru’s famed Inca Trail? Here’s what to know about Machu Picchu’s recent protests, and why it could lose ...

Operations in the ancient Incan world would sometimes involve scraping and drilling holes in the skull, a surgery researchers now know was so refined in ancient Peru that survival rates during the ...

Workers installing new gas lines outside Lima, Peru uncovered eight mummies and objects dating back to pre-Inca times last week. Like an onion with several layers, the capital region of Peru has ...