A new look at three children who died in the Inca human sacrifice ceremony known as Capacocha reveals their last few months ...
In a rare find, archaeologists in Peru have discovered freeze-dried potatoes that the Inca carried hundreds of miles from the Andes so their people would not starve.
Human sacrifice was deeply ingrained in Inca civilization. Children and young people were selected for sacrifice to appease the gods and sacred mountain spirits. Being chosen was considered a great ...
Mechanisms, Causes, and Time of Death of the Western Andean Capacocha of the Southern Tawantinsuyu, presents a detailed ...
Steeped in death, conquest, desire, and mystery, the legend of the lost Inca gold is guarded by remote, mist-veiled mountains ...
Deep in the Andes, atop the frozen summit of Llullaillaco volcano on the border of Argentina and Chile, archaeologists once found the remarkably prese.
A deep exploration of Killarok (Kia Rok), the mysterious “Stones of the Moon” outside Cusco, Peru, examining an intricately ...
In 1999, archaeologists found three mummified Inca children, including a teenage girl they named La Doncella, and two younger ...
Rising from obscurity to the heights of power, a succession of Andean rulers subdued kingdoms, sculpted mountains, and forged ...