Machu Picchu will always be a bucket-list destination, but its popularity comes with drawbacks. Consider this alternative ...

LIMA, Peru — Utility workers excavating trenches to expand underground gas networks in Peru’s capital unearthed two pre-Incan tombs on Thursday. One was empty, but the other held the 1,000-year-old ...

Incan fortresses built some 500 years ago have been discovered along an extinct volcano in northern Ecuador, revealing evidence of a war fought by the Inca just before the Spanish conquistadors ...

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Each khipu strand represented its own decimal number. Recordkeeping wasn’t a mundane statistical task in the Incan empire—it was an artform. Instead of solely relying on scribes to maintain ledgers on ...

(CBS/REUTERS) — Archaeologists in Peru have unearthed the remains of a 500-year-old Incan noble found amongst the ruins of the Tucume (TOO-coo-meh) archaeological site, officials reported on Friday ...

Operations in the ancient Incan world would sometimes involve scraping and drilling holes in the skull, a surgery researchers now know was so refined in ancient Peru that survival rates during the ...

While the ancient Egyptians may be the best-known mummy makers, they were far from the first. A very sophisticated fishing tribe called the Chinchoros, who lived on the north coast of what is now ...

When Incan healers scraped or cut a hunk of bone out of a person’s head, they meant business. Practitioners of this technique, known as trepanation, demonstrated great skill more than 500 years ago in ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Incan children as young as 6 were “fattened up” prior to their sacrificial deaths, a new study ...