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 ...

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.

On the morning of July 24, 1911, an enterprising lecturer-explorer from Yale University set off in a cold drizzle to investigate rumors of ancient Inca ruins in Peru. The explorer chopped his way ...

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 ...