For more than a millennium, many Andean peoples used an object called a "khipu" (also spelled "quipu" and pronounced "key-poo ...

Once a mainstay of Indigenous diets, the South American crop is having a resurgence in popularity, in part because of its ...

The Incas worshipped the high peaks that pierce the South American skies. These rugged summits represented a means of approaching the Sun God, Inti, the center of their religion, and many ...

Peru is hoping its famous cuisine will live up to its reputation at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum, serving ...

The Chancay port will be one of South America’s largest belt and road successes, though it has raised local concerns about ...

This small gold model of a llama is a fitting offering for an Inca mountain god. The Incas revered gold as the sweat of the sun and believed that it represented the sun's regenerative powers.

On a local level, heavy metal and chemical pollution from unmaintained factories and infrastructure will exert pressures on ...

The first known Incas, a noble family who ruled Cuzco and a small surrounding high Andean agricultural state, date back to A.D. 1200. The growth of the empire beyond Cuzco began in 1438 when ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping published a signed article in Peruvian media outlet El Peruano on Thursday under the title China-Peru Friendship Setting ...

But they got it wrong. Thousands of years earlier the pre-Incas were able to plot its location almost as accurately as modern day GPS. How did they do it? In this film, we explore how indigenous ...

New Zealand’s export share of GDP has not changed meaningfully over the past few decades, despite more than two-thirds of New ...

For Halloween, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reveals a spooktacular image of a dark nebula that creates the illusion of a wolf-like silhouette against a colourful cosmic backdrop. Fittingly ...