... and trace some of the mysteries surrounding its Sun Temple." The dramatic work depicts the shimmering city in the Andes mountains, the destructiveness of the violent invasion of the Spaniards, and the re-emergence of Incan glory as the City ...

... as popular, even fashionable, as it is today. The story of the potato begins more than 4000 years ago, in the Andes Mountains of Peru, where the ancient Incas first cultivated the tubers (contrary to popular thinking, they aren't actually ...

... one was hurt. In 1991, fragments of the Soviet Salyut-7 space station, the Mir's predecessor, fell on the Andes Mountains region of Argentina near the Chilean border, inflicting no damage or injuries but generating fears worldwide. Space ...

... first to circumnavigate the globe solo. As Fossett's Solo Spirit balloon crept closer to South America's towering Andes mountains, one of the propane vapor tanks that feeds the burner pilot lights and the cabin heater in the balloon stopped working ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett neared the coast of South America and the towering Andes mountains Wednesday on his bid to become the first to make a solo balloon flight around the globe. High-altitude wind already ...

Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett crossed the towering Andes mountains on Thursday and passed the halfway mark on his latest quest to become the first solo balloonist to circle the globe. An hour after ...

... The 11,550-foot high mountain -- part of the Andes mountain range -- is 10 miles northwest of the town of Chachapoyas ... region of rain forest on the eastern slope of the Andes Mountains. TANS, a state-owned airline, was set up 40 years ...

... finding themselves nauseated and extremely fatigued. But it wasn't polio. The city of La Paz, amid the towering Andes Mountains, averages 11,500 feet in elevation, and its airport was the highest in the world. Bost and Glenn, from Little ...

... BANOS, Ecuador - Thousands of people fled an avalanche of lava and molten rocks as a volcanic eruption in Ecuador's Andes mountains buried entire villages, leaving one person dead and 60 missing. The Tungurahua volcano exploded before dawn Thursday ...

... pilot also claim to have set a world glider altitude record of 50,671 feet during a flight in August 2006 over the Andes Mountains. Branson said in a statement that Fossett's flight Monday was preparation for a shot at yet another mark: He was ...