Peruvian gas workers made an astonishing discovery beneath the ancient streets of Lima this week — uncovering eight mummies and a number of Pre-Inca artifacts. “We are recovering those leaves ...

When you think of the ancient world, the Incan Empire might come to mind. With fantastic terraces and storehouses in the ...

📜 The Inca Empire: A God Taken Hostage - Atahualpa vs. Francisco Pizarro. ... 'Trash' found deep inside a Mexican cave turns out to be 500-year-old artifacts from a little-known culture.

Scholars now believe that the Incas often used these numerical records to count goods. In 2013 and 2014, for instance, archaeologists excavated an Inca storehouse and found several khipus ...

A photograph shared on social media for years authentically showed a 500-year-old teenage mummy preserved during the Incan Empire 500 years ago ... Surrounded by a shrine of elite artifacts, ...

A pre-Inca mummy unearthed in Peru’s Puente Piedra district reveals details about a young woman’s life and ancient Chancay rituals.

DNA analysis, conducted largely at UC Santa Cruz's Paleogenomics Lab and led by Anthropology Professor Lars Fehren-Schmitz, suggests that servants at Machu Picchu were a uniquely diverse group, and ...

The Inca Empire, which lasted from around 1200 to 1533, ... Replicas of the artifacts buried with the Ice Maiden are on display and visitors can touch them to feel their weight and texture.

For decades, it was thought that the cause of death of the child from Cerro El Plomo was hypothermia. The naturally freeze-dried body of a child from 560 years ago – approximately 8 years old – is now ...

In the study, the team compared the DNA of 34 individuals buried at Machu Picchu over 500 years ago with DNA of other people from around the Inca Empire, as well as some modern genomes from South ...