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 ...

SUCRE, Bolivia -- Just click "Qallariy" to begin. The word -- pronounced "KAH-lyah-ree" -- replaces "Start" on Microsoft Windows' familiar taskbar in a new Quechua translation of the program, which ...

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 ...

SAN CRISTÓBAL DE RAPAZ, Peru — The route to San Cristóbal de Rapaz, a village 13,000 feet above sea level, runs from the desert coast up hairpin bends, delivering ...

Lots of llama droppings helped the ancient Inca build the largest empire ever to exist in the Americas, according to a new study. Human populations took off and developed into complex societies in the ...

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 ...