William Neuman reports on the importance of the new discovery for the New York Times: At the site called Incahuasi, about 100 miles south of Lima, excavators have found, for the first time, several ...

The vanished Inca civilisation of the Andes, long thought to have no writing, invented a seven-bit binary code to store information more than 500 years before the invention of the computer, argues an ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Microsoft will translate its Windows and Office software into Quechua, the language of the indigenous Inca, for Andean nations from ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. You have to press "Qallariy" to begin. Pronounced "KAH-lyah-ree," the word replaces "Start" on Microsoft Windows' familiar taskbar in a ...

A 400-year warm spell helped the ancient Inca to build the largest empire ever to exist in the Americas, a new study has established. Beginning around 1100 A.D., the increase in temperature served as ...

In the ancient Inca capital of Cusco, the solstice is marked by an annual Festival of the Sun, or Inti Raymi. As we rode the air-conditioned bus down from the mountain citadel at Machu Picchu in the ...

Cuzco, I decided, had to be the gayest city in South America. Everywhere I turned were rainbow flags. They fluttered in front of banks, in hotel lobbies, in restaurants, atop government buildings.

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