Happy Independence Week, DC! America turns 249 this weekend. You can celebrate the holiday with fireworks, barbecue fare, and ...

The crowning jewel is Quito’s 17th-century Old Town, a heaving historical quarter so impeccably preserved that it was the first city in the world to be accorded UNESCO World Heritage Status. Arriving ...

Utility workers excavating trenches to expand the network of natural gas pipelines in Peru’s capital have uncovered a pre-Inca mummy approximately 1,000 years old, barely 20 inches from the ...

The mural by artist Fernando Lechón is on the side of an Ecuadorian restaurant, Avenida del Sabor, on West Diversey Avenue.

Catch Beyoncé live, check out the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, and attend a book talk on DC's Latino immigrants.

Ottoman imperium eventually ended in ignominy, with defeat in World War I and the Armenian Genocide – an appalling ...

The Peruvian city of Cuzco sits perched high in the Andes Mountains, where the climate is dry and mild and the local people ...

Peru is a country with a rich, deep-rooted history that stretches back thousands of years. It is home to one of the oldest ...

Located roughly 300 miles north of Lima in Río Abiseo National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Gran Pajatén complex ...

They initially resisted the expansion of the Inca Empire but were eventually incorporated into it toward the end of the 15th century, shortly before the arrival of the Spanish. Gran Pajatén was ...

Scholars now believe that the Incas often used these numerical records to count goods. In 2013 and 2014, for instance, archaeologists excavated an Inca storehouse and found several khipus ...