An Australian tourist has died after falling into a ravine whilst hiking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu in Peru.

Peru’s Ministry of Culture has said that Machu Picchu is open to the public again. The historic site, which is also the most popular place for tourists to visit in Peru, had been closed for almost a ...

Australian tourist trekking Machu Picchu dies after plunging 400m into ravine - Family says father of three always wanted to travel to Peru and learned Spanish to help with his trip to Machu Picchu ...

Researchers are one step closer to understanding more about Machu Picchu, as a new study revealed the true age of these ancient Inca ruins. It turns out that they're actually several decades older ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Machu Picchu is a World Heritage site and is also considered a new wonder of the world. But for how much longer? Photo: Getty ...

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 ...

A head-on collision between two trains on the primary route to the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu left one person dead and at least 40 others injured on Tuesday. The accident, which occurred near the ...

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 ...

Machu Picchu, Peru's most important tourist destination and one of the 7 Wonders. (Photo by Gustavo Basso/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Machu Picchu is a historic site like few on earth. One of the seven ...