The Incan Temple of the Sun in Cusco has long been a visual and cultural jewel of the ancient empire. But there’s even more ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Although the ancient Inca are renowned for their highly organized society and extraordinary skill in working with gold, stone and pottery, few are familiar with the khipu -- an ...

"We recovered some archaeological remains that were inside a four-meter deep pit. There we found three funerary bundles containing more than one body with rich grave goods corresponding to the Inca ...

The Chachapoyas region was conquered by the Inca Empire in the late 15th century. Inca oral histories, written down after the Spanish conquest, claim that the native population was forcibly resettled ...

The tomb likely belonged to elites from the Riricancho society, which existed in the city prior to the Incas and populated Lima over 500 years ago, lead archaeologist Julio Abanto told Reuters. The ...

Examples of government control over social and economic life are as old as recorded history, and they always have features that are universal in their perverse effects regardless of time or place. One ...

Discovering the Incas and their past -- PART ONE: HISTORY: Empire of the sun -- The land -- Sacred landscapes, sacred skies -- Early settlers to empire builders -- Themes and peoples -- Power and ...

📜 The Inca Empire: Life of a Dead Emperor - To understand daily life in the Inca Empire, we travel from Cusco to Quito (located in modern-day Ecuador), where Thupa Inca wanted to establish a second ...

The city of Cusco seems to hum in anticipation. Villagers dressed in colorful shawls, or chompas, mingle with city-folk and tourists. Processions parade down the cobble stone streets. Horns blare over ...

LIMA (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed an Inca-era tomb in the heart of Peru's capital Lima, archaeologists said on Wednesday, a burial dug up under a working-class home and believed to hold noble ...