The Incas built well. Though they never invented the wheel, they contrived to haul huge blocks of stone, often weighing 20 tons or more, to the mountain peaks they favored for their citadels. The ...

Roberto Román has always loved stone. Growing up in Ayacucho, Peru, he was surrounded by the region’s ancient quarries and dreamed of one day being a stonecutter. “Eventually, life led me to work at a ...

Archaeologists found two 500-year-old quarries in the Cañete mountains and a trail network used during the final stage of the Inca empire, photos show. Photo from Qhapaq Ñan Project Atop some ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. officials have repatriated 16 cultural items to the Peruvian government, including paintings, historical documents and stone axes. The FBI returned the items to representatives ...

Anthologists working in the northern Peruvian Andes have excavated a circular stone plaza, cited as one of the earliest examples of monumental megalithic architecture in the Americas. Dated back ...