In a rare find, archaeologists in Peru have discovered freeze-dried potatoes that the Inca carried hundreds of miles from the Andes so their people would not starve.

Long before modern refrigeration, the ancient Inca Empire was preserving food for years and moving it across vast distances.

Rare 500-year-old freeze-dried potatoes found at an ancient Inca coastal site are changing how researchers understand the power of early food preservation. The discovery in southern Peru has revealed ...

Archaeologists in Peru have recovered two potato lumps from an Inca storeroom dating back about 500 years, and the pieces still appear strikingly well preserved. The find offers a window into how the ...

Grown high in the Andes for millennia, a grain the Incas so prized they deemed it sacred has become a global star and is now being touted as the health food of the future. Quinoa, a good crop for ...

Growing up in Peru, we ate many foods that you don’t see as often in the United States. Quinoa, for instance, was everywhere—we used it to feed both people and chickens! In recent years many of the ...

Two small, wrinkled lumps of potato were found buried inside a ceramic jar on the floor of an ancient storage room on the arid southern coast of Peru, and they turned out to be roughly 500 years old, ...