In the hot Bolivian lowland hills that stretch toward the Amazon rainforest, indigenous peoples began to carve a giant red-hued rock...

At the height of its existence, the Inca Empire ran some 2,500 miles along the Andean range from Colombia to Chile, had more than 10 million subjects and was home to Cuzco, a city ...

New York Times writer Ava Chin recently blogged about Amaranthus after repeatedly stumbling upon the leafy plant growing through metro-area sidewalk cracks from Staten Island to Ne...

After a century of exile in the United States—and decades of wrangling—human remains from the famed citadel of Machu Picchu will be repatriated to Peru, along with thousands of art...

Our crack reporter down in Bolivia took these stunning photos of her trek along the Salkantay Trail in Peru. Enjoy!

Dale Carson Each year, the universal commercial time for expressing love comes in mid-February—a “holiday” many people treat as an excuse to indulge in a time-honored Native Americ...

Before the Spanish arrived in Peru in the 16th century, the Incas didn't use horses, nor did they use the wheel for transportation, so the Inca trail was almost exclusively populat...

The scope of the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) in Washington, D.C., is mind-boggling—825,000 items representing more than 12,000 years of history—and one of the rea...

On the vast, dry Bolivian plains near the shore of Lake Titicaca stand the remains of a great civilization...