This pre-Inca chest ornament dates to between roughly 800 B.C. and 1 A.D. In 1986, the City of Cusco selected the disc's design as its official symbol and coat of arms. Smithsonian's National Museum ...

Each year on June 24th, Cusco, Peru - already an ancient city - transforms itself into the Inca capital that it once was. The Inti Raymi festival is an authentic re-enactment of a sacred Inca ...

CUZCO, Peru (AP) — Long before electricity, ancient Incans relied on one sole energy source to power their daily lives: the sun. So each year when winter approached and the sun's daily jaunt across ...

At the highest point of the Coricancha temple in Cuzco at dawn, an indigenous actor interpreting a ceremony of the ancient Inca raises his hands to receive the sun's first rays. But these are changing ...

The sun is an important symbol in Hispanic culture. Inti, the ancient Incan sun god, is revered as the national patron of the Inca state, and the sun’s image is displayed on the historical flag of ...