You’ve probably seen this before. It’s what everyone pictures when they think of Machu Picchu—the verdant network of stone terraces, temples, and open-walled houses; the soaring peaks of Huayna Picchu ...

Foreign tourists wait on a football field to be evacuated by rescue helicopters in Aguas Calientes, near Machu Picchu in 2010 Credit: AP Peruvian soldiers try to control foreign tourists clamouring to ...

I recently visited Machu Picchu for an amazing luxury weekend and found new construction and red-taped no public access areas were increasing on a daily basis. I also watched several excavations in ...

Although I had seen many images of Machu Picchu, nothing prepared me for the real thing. Stretching along the crest of a narrow ridge lay the mesmerizing embodiment of the Inca Empire, a civilization ...