Peru’s famous Inca city of Machu Picchu, perched high in the Andes Mountains, is possibly several decades older than experts previously thought. New evidence published in the journal Antiquity found ...

Machu Picchu is a World Heritage site and is also considered a new wonder of the world. But for how much longer? Photo: Getty Images Tourism at Machu Picchu is once again disrupted by violent protests ...

Machu Picchu, the remains of a 15th Century Inca city, is Peru's most popular tourist destination, and a Unesco world ...

As political unrest heightens in Peru, some 800 tourists are now stranded in the town of Machu Picchu, below the ruins of the famed 15th-century Inca citadel. Protestors have reportedly blocked the ...

An organisation has warned that Peru’s Machu Picchu risks losing “credibility” as a new wonder of the world amid ongoing protests from local people. Earlier this month, at least 900 tourists were left ...

Nestled in an extraordinarily beautiful setting in the middle of a tropical mountain forest in Peru, the world’s most recognised archaeological site was originally not called Machu Picchu, historians ...

LIMA, Peru — An influx of tourists to Peru's famed Incan citadel of Machu Picchu may prompt UNESCO to add the jungle-shrouded ruins to its list of endangered World Heritage sites. Yearly visits to ...

Machu Picchu stands 2,430 m above sea-level, in the middle of a tropical mountain forest, in an extraordinarily beautiful setting. It was probably the most amazing urban creation of the Inca Empire at ...

The site covers some 80,000 acres. UNESCO named it a World Heritage Site in 1983. Dave Mason When Hiram Bingham, a young Yale professor, discovered Machu Picchu in 1911, he found a site overrun with ...

UNESCO will send a mission to the Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu, Peru, in view of concerns by the World Heritage Committee for the conservation of this outstanding Andean archaeological centre ...

Some might say too Machu tourism is ruining this beloved part of Peru -- and a planned airport won't help. Shutterstock Machu Picchu is on almost every traveler’s bucket list, but its popularity might ...