Literally "old mountain" in Quechua, Peru's dominant indigenous language, Machu Picchu is built into peaks more than 2,400 meters above sea level in southern Peru, where the Andes and the Amazon Basin ...

LIMA (Reuters) - A team of archeologists have discovered the ruins of what appears to be a 4,000-year-old ceremonial temple buried in a sand dune of northern Peru, alongside skeletal human remains ...

When Kim Pemberton made the journey to Machu Picchu last November, she found that while the ruins themselves remain largely ...

Here's a tip for visiting remote ruins in the cloud forests of northern Peru: If someone offers you a donkey, take it. I am not sure exactly when I realized this. It might have been early in my first ...