Rising from obscurity to the heights of power, a succession of Andean rulers subdued kingdoms, sculpted mountains, and forged ...

Human sacrifice was deeply ingrained in Inca civilization. Children and young people were selected for sacrifice to appease the gods and sacred mountain spirits. Being chosen was considered a great ...

A diver with a bowl recovered from the Tiwanaku site. (Teddy Seguin) The mysterious Inca Empire is a source of endless fascination to many, representing the largest and most elaborate society of ...

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. Archaeologists have now uncovered rare evidence of that system in Peru. Two ...

Deep in the Andes, atop the frozen summit of Llullaillaco volcano on the border of Argentina and Chile, archaeologists once found the remarkably prese.

ANTH copy 39088019656784 gift from Paul R. Julian. Introduction -- Discovering the Incas and their predecessors -- Native and Spanish sources -- Explorers and the first archaeologists -- 20th-century ...

Mechanisms, Causes, and Time of Death of the Western Andean Capacocha of the Southern Tawantinsuyu, presents a detailed ...

In 1999, archaeologists found three mummified Inca children, including a teenage girl they named La Doncella, and two younger ...

Steeped in death, conquest, desire, and mystery, the legend of the lost Inca gold is guarded by remote, mist-veiled mountains ...

CHINA DAILY A botanical exhibition that merges ancient American civilizations is ongoing at the Shanghai Expo Culture Park, ...