The Incas honoured and venerated many features of both natural and man-made landscapes that they felt to be endowed with superhuman powers. Astronomy was at the very heart of the Incas’ religion and ...

Ruins of a sanctuary used by the Inca civilisation to sacrifice children to their gods is believed to have been discovered in a remote mountain range in Peru. A team of Spanish explorers stumbled upon ...

Archaeologists unearthed the five mummified creatures in Peru. It's thought they were sacrificed to the Incan gods around half a millennium ago. The Inca Empire was the largest empire in pre-Columbian ...

THE face of Peru’s most famous mummy has been revealed in a 3D reconstruction more than 500 years after her death. The teen girl was likely sacrificed to ‘appease’ Incan gods atop an icy peak in the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Penny Watson follows the Inca Trail to where the land touches the sky. One great conundrum when camping is the psychosomatic need for ...

The genetic lineage of an Incan child mummy has connected him to one of the founding lineages that colonized the Americas. Courtesy of the University of Cuyo press. The mummy of an Incan child who was ...

After years of searchers, diving archaeologists have discovered a box made from volcanic rock beneath Lake Titicaca - the largest lake in South America which is situated in Peru and Bolivia. After ...