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.

A mummy was discovered by utility workers in Peru, and it is believed to have belonged to an adolescent from a pre-Inca ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Centered around the theme of "Sun Worship," the exhibition features 16 replicas of representative artifacts and 3D-printed artworks from the Sanxingdui Museum and Jinsha Site Museum, as well as ...