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 ...

A new facial approximation brings to life an Incan girl who was killed 500 years ago as part of a sacrificial ritual. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

The Incas performed child sacrifices during or after important events, such as the death of the Sapa Inca (emperor) or during a famine. Children were selected as sacrificial victims as they were ...

Utility workers excavating trenches to expand an underground gas network in the capital of Peru unearthed two pre-Incan tombs on Thursday that are more than 1,000 years old. One of the tombs was empty ...

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Learn more about the Chiribaya Shepherd, a faithful and honored companion to the Pre-Incan Chiribaya people.

It was early November when my wife, Raija, and I climbed aboard an early-morning bus for Lake Titicaca. I’d been living in Arequipa, Peru, for five months as a Fulbright Scholar, researching a book ...

A 500-year-old frozen Incan mummy suffered from a bacterial lung infection at the time of its death, as revealed by a novel proteomics method that shows evidence of an active pathogenic infection in ...

A new research suggests that the Wari, a pre-Incan civilization, used psychedelics in beer to promote diplomacy.

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 ...

Incan children as young as 6 were “fattened up” prior to their sacrificial deaths, a new study shows. Researchers made the startling discovery by sampling the hair of frozen child mummies found high ...

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