The royal palaces of Cusco, the Inca capital, fell swiftly to the European conquerors, and a new Spanish colonial city rose on their ruins, burying or obliterating the Inca past. In more recent ...

At the Temple of the Condor ... Cusco to the Urubamba Valley below the ruins. You can hop off the train at the 82‑kilometer mark and walk the Inca Trail (26 miles)—the most celebrated hiking ...

Archaeologists unearthed the buried ruins of a possible 4,000-year-old ceremonial temple in northern Peru ... a mid-15th century Inca citadel and UNESCO World Heritage Site, which continues ...

Before the Spanish conquest of Peru, the Inca were an expansive culture known ... Estimated to be about 5,000 years old, the temple walls are made from smashed mud, archaeologists said.

After defeating the forces of Atahualpa, the last Inca emperor, in 1533 ... what was once the north atrium of Pachacamac’s Painted Temple. The pyramidal Painted Temple is believed to have ...