You can measure the importance of the Inca in several levels. The main reason is school education. We learn in school that the Incas were the best. So they are in high – they are the peak of ...

Descended in part from Inca colonists sent here more than 500 years ago, the inhabitants of Taquile keep the old ways. They weave brilliantly colored cloth, speak the traditional language of the ...

Osteoporosis is a severe loss of mineral from the bone. The cortex, which contains most of the bone's minerals, becomes very thin and fractures easily. It seems to be associated with aging and ...

Steeped in death, conquest, desire, and mystery, the legend of the lost Inca gold is guarded by remote, mist-veiled mountains in central Ecuador. Somewhere deep inside the unforgiving Llanganates ...

Dead for 500 years, this Inca sacrificial mummy found on Chile's El Plomo Peak has opened the door to further inquiry into the strange and mysterious ritual life of the Inca. There may be hundreds ...

Oct. 9, 2024 — If you smugly believe you're right in a disagreement with a friend or colleague, a new study suggests why you may actually be wrong. Researchers found that people naturally assume ...

October 14, 2024 • Eden Alonso-Rivera of Grandville, Mich. is the high school winner of NPR's Student Podcast Challenge. Her winning entry, "A Relationship Behind Bars," is about her father's ...

Exploration at the Riqueza Project, located in Peru, at the greater Frewena Project and the Jean Elson project, both located in the Northern Territory, and at the MaCauley Creek Project, located ...

The untimely death of popular singer Liam Payne on Wednesday, October 16, has left millions of his fans devastated and ...

A week after commemorating his birth (April 12), it is a good excuse to remember the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega and his iconic works, which are still valid in Peruvian and international history.

The government said it closed the site, and the Inca trail hike leading up to it, to protect tourists and citizens. Hundreds of people who were stuck for hours at the foot of the 15th Century Inca ...

It’s one of the world’s seven wonders, but a lot can go wrong when trekking Machu Picchu.Credit: Getty Images Fifteen of us set off on the famed Inca Trail trek to Machu Picchu; only 10 of us ...