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

Lost Countries of South America, Laurence Blair makes the case for the region. Blair, a British journalist living in Paraguay, tells the stories of nine South American ‘nations’ that either broke up, ...

Get your Indiana Jones-style fedora ready for a modern-day armchair expedition of places rediscovered after centuries—and ...

The Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro is infamous for his ruthless conquest of the Inca Empire in South America. Driven by a desire for wealth, Pizarro captured and executed the Incan emperor ...

It's hard to believe this iconic "lost city of the Incas" was untouched during the Spanish conquest. The Incas cleverly obscured these 12 acres of temples, aqueducts and gardens from the Spaniards ...

Laurence Blair’s history of South America, Patria, mixes vivid historic detail with travels so intrepid they could have their ...

Sheinbaum wrote a tweet explaining that her refusal to invite the King of Spain was not due to any ideology, but rather ...

Inca roads, Pachacamac ... Syncretism is the word that is often used for that — practices that are pre-conquest are united ...

After the decline of the Moche civilization, the Inca empire later rose up in the highlands in the same region. The mural paintings of Panamarca are not currently accessible to tourists due to ...