A 2024 peer-reviewed engineering study has put hard numbers behind a claim that visitors to Cusco have tested for centuries ...

Inca masons built walls from massive stone blocks that have survived centuries of Andean earthquakes, and they did it without ...

Modern forensic techniques have unravelled the mystery surrounding the violent death of an Inca boy who was marched thousands ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

The Inca recognized the importance of guano and the islands where the so-called guano birds breed as central to the survival of their civilization — and they responded by implementing the first ever ...