With “P’unchaw,” the photographer Victor Zea captures the light falling on Cuzco, Peru, where people have mixed Catholic and ...

One civilisation, the Inca, based their religion on the Sun and Moon and so feared the end of the world was nigh when eclipses occurred. Related articles. Eclipse 2019: ...

Undisturbed for 500 years, the rare unlooted offering sheds light on Inca religion and ritual. A member of the research team dives into Lake Titicaca, which straddles the border of Bolivia and Peru.

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 ...

Video. A 600-year-old Inca tradition that shows no sign of aging. Peruvians have been celebrating the sacred Sun Festival 'Inti Raymi' with the help of thousands of spectators from around the world.

1. sun worship, veneration of the sun or a representation of the sun as a deity, as in Atonism in Egypt in the 14th century bce. 2. Although sun worship has been used frequently as a term for ...

Fans re-enact historic Inca sun festival At the highest point of the Coricancha temple in Cuzco at dawn, an indigenous actor interpreting a ceremony of the ancient Inca raises his hands to receive ...

With an offering to Pachamama (Mother Earth), the ancestral Inca ceremony for the sun god is staged in Cusco before thousands of tourists for the first time after more than two years of pandemic.