Explore Machu Picchu’s dramatic edge at the so-called “Sacrificial Rock,” where local legends about Inca human sacrifice are questioned and reframed as a likely place of meditation with sweeping views ...

At Sacsayhuaman in Peru, massive megalithic walls show clear signs of extreme destruction that appear older than Inca construction. Huge stones are split, displaced, and buried in ways that suggest a ...

A new El Niño event is emerging in Peru's climate outlook. According to the latest report from the Multisectoral Commission in Charge of the National Study of El Niño Phenomenon (ENFEN), a weak El ...

Machu Picchu has always been hard to reach, but a new airport will soon change that and bring 200% more visitors to the area ...

Furniture makers from Paris to California are rediscovering the benefits of this ancient stone.

It took the artist half a century of toil in the most remote parts of Nevada to build what may be the most extreme ...

Encephalitis lethargica is an illness that attacks the brain, leaving the victims like living statues—speechless and motionless. This disease turned into a full-blown epidemic around the world in the ...

The same travertine quarries near Rome that built St. Peter’s Basilica and the Colosseum are still being dug out today.

People planning a Pacific Northwest road trip to view ancient art know that many of the oldest, most fascinating works are not found in museums but where they were created: on rocks out in the open.

The Earth is full of wonders. Mountains, deserts, forests. Cities, monuments, artificial islands. But some things are so massive or uniquely designed .

The medieval tunnel was dug into loess and cut directly through a trapezoidal ditch associated with the Baalberge culture (4th millennium BC), a landscape already reused for burials in later ...