No one had bothered to make maps of them ... that made the Inca empire so powerful and so great was the fact that the Incas had a genius for connecting various different regions of the country ...

Atahualpa was an Inca king who, after warring with his ... but he says his directions do make sense against modern maps of the region. While Reinhard doesn't believe Atahualpa's gold will ever ...

And if you see the extension of the Inca Empire, if you compare them in the map with the Aztecs, it’s like four of five times more than the other big empire in the Americas. You can measure the ...

In the mountains of Uzbekistan, archaeologists aided by laser-based remote-sensing technology have identified two lost cities ...

The more scientists study the Red Planet, the more they find unusual objects and patterns scattered across Mars' surface.

the rulers of the provinces also brought to the Inca models of llamas made of gold and silver, tokens of the great animal wealth of the regions they ruled. Our llama may have been one of these ...

In the mountains of Uzbekistan, archaeologists aided by laser-based remote-sensing technology have identified two lost cities ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs has announced that it is taking the first steps under the MyVA initiative to use state boundaries to divide the country into five regions. The new regions will ...

The Nazi gold train In the final days of World War II, a train loaded with Nazi gold, art, and valuables reportedly disappeared in the lower Silesian region ... The Vinland map The Vinland map ...

Kath and Adrian needed a challenge to get them off the sofa Visiting Peru – and specifically walking the Inca Trail – had been a vague aspiration of mine for years. Suddenly it felt like ...

Peru’s mountaintop icon has long been a poster child for overtourism, and despite recent measures to limit visitation, travelers still have to deal with, well, other travelers at this sacred space.