Peruvian archeologists have unearthed the first full Inca burial site at Machu Picchu since the famous mountaintop citadel was discovered 90 years ago, officials said. “It’s important because nothing ...

Spanish colonizers never found Machu Picchu. The arrival of Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro in 1532 forever altered the Inca empire, a kingdom he described as “so beautiful and has such fine ...

The site covers some 80,000 acres. UNESCO named it a World Heritage Site in 1983. Dave Mason When Hiram Bingham, a young Yale professor, discovered Machu Picchu in 1911, he found a site overrun with ...

When the Spanish conquistadors showed up hungry for gold in the 1530s, there were fewer than 200 of them, but they had guns and horses and the luck to arrive during an Incan civil war. In short order, ...

We've ranked the most interesting archaeological finds of all time, ranging from the intricate ruins of Machu Picchu to the ...