Generally speaking, Incan architecture is everywhere in Cusco, and isn’t hard to spot as you walk the cobblestone streets here.

Ancient Andean cities -- Urban civilization -- Ceremonial centres and enclosures -- ritual and funerary compounds -- Administrative architecture -- Elite and royal residences -- Domestic architecture ...

Inca society kept records by encoding information into knotted cords called khipu. A new analysis of hair woven into these ...

“We have been working out connection details for 3-D prints and architecture, and we recalled our visit to Peru several years ago to study Incan architecture,” explain Ronald Rael and Virginia ...

Machu Picchu, the "lost city of the Incas," was not a true city but rather a pilgrimage center symbolically connected to the Andean vision of the cosmos, an Italian study has concluded.

Cusco is a beautiful city with fantastic Spanish colonial architecture against a backdrop of the Andes mountains and fantastic Incan ruins, like Sacsayhuaman, right nearby.

Villagers told local authorities of their find – which occurred on September 9 – and returned with officials to take another look at what could be an old Inca citadel that had been covered by ...

Inca Stone Monument “Irreparably” Damaged in Cusco The 12-Angled Stone in Cusco belongs to an architectural tradition of sturdy exterior walls built using precisely interlinking, multi-ton blocks.

California-based architecture firm Emerging Objects has developed a design called the Quake Column, which draws on the ancient Incan building technique known as “ashlar” and merges it with ...

The first stop on any trip to Machu Picchu is Cuzco, an 11,000 foot high city founded in the 12th century, according to legend, when the first Incan king found a spot where he could plunge a ...