For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

From the seat of government in Cusco, the Inca managed a vast territory stretching over 770,000 square miles. Controlling ...

As you travel around Cusco and Peru’s Sacred Valley or further south in the region of Puno (near Lake Titicaca), keep an eye on the rooftops. You will often fin ...

The New York Times reported that Trump pardoned a man who pleaded guilty to tax crimes after his mother attended a Mar-a-Lago ...

By Paarth Mathur ✐ Peruvian Times Contributing Writer ☄ The linguistic landscape of Peru is a story of resilience. Since the ...

Francisco Pizarro: Celebrated for his conquest of the Inca Empire, later accounts detailed his treachery, cruelty, and the brutal exploitation and enslavement of the indigenous population, painting a ...

The Atlantic has a fascinating deep dive into khipus — long cords that the Inca tied knots into to preserve information. Few ...

Everest have reunited with other members of the Philippine Mount Everest Expedition team and their supporters during the launch of the book reliving their 2007 conquest of the world’s highest peak.

The research, published in the journal Genome Biology, found that North African ancestry was already present in the region between the 4th and 8th centuries, long before the Islamic conquest of 711.