Although the ruins of the Inca town of Chinchero are impressive, I bypassed them this time and stopped instead at a potato farm. The humble plant got its start a few hundred miles southwest near ...

Agricultural techniques perfected by Inca farmers 500 years ago are beginning to have a dramatic effect on the incomes of today's farmers in Pampachiri, one of the poorest areas of Peru. The Inca ...

Scientists have long thought that Inca rulers required their subjects to farm lands run by the state on a rotating basis. But unlike other early civilizations, such as those in Mesopotamia and ...

The smaller unit, roughly the length of a human arm to the elbow, was used to construct farm buildings, workshops, and structures for the servants of the Inca elite. The larger unit, which does ...

TURBO, ANTIOQUIA, Colombia, Dec. 04, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Inca Worldwide (OTC Pink:QEDN), through GMS (Green Mine Solutions), signed an agreement with Aprovisa, involving 366 farmers who are ...

What remains of the Inca legacy is limited, as the conquistadors plundered what they could of Inca treasures and in so doing, dismantled the many structures painstakingly built by Inca craftsmen ...

Languages: English, Spanish Researchers have uncovered fascinating new insights into an ancient mountaintop settlement high up in the Peruvian Andes, which pre-dates the famous Inca site of Machu ...