A deep exploration of Killarok (Kia Rok), the mysterious “Stones of the Moon” outside Cusco, Peru, examining an intricately carved megalithic structure that may have functioned as an ancient Inca ...

This small gold model of a llama is a fitting offering for an Inca mountain god. The Incas revered gold as the sweat of the sun and believed that it represented the sun's regenerative powers. All gold ...

The growth of the Inca Empire can only be described as meteoric. Though precise dates for its beginnings remain elusive, the realm known to the Inca as Tahuantinsuyu, or "The Four Parts Together," ...

A 500-year-old Inca khipu made from human hair is challenging the long-held belief that only elites created these intricate record-keeping tools. Chemical analysis of the hair revealed a diet ...

LIMA, Peru (AFP) — Peru unveiled a priceless manuscript containing the memoirs of former Inca leaders that had disappeared during Chile’s occupation of Lima during the 1879-84 Pacific War. The ...

Writing Inca History : The Colonial Era / Joanne Pillsbury -- Andean Statecraft before the Incas / Jerry D. Moore -- The Spread of Inca Power in the Cuzco Region / R. Alan Covey -- Cuzco : Development ...

The 500-year-old skull, found in a long-forgotten Inca cemetery outside Lima, Peru, had two round holes just across from each other. Nearby was a plug of bone, recovered intact, that carried the ...

South America’s ancient Inca rulers didn’t establish the largest empire in the New World by being sweethearts. But their reputation as warmongers, at least according to some influential 16th- and 17th ...

Examples of government control over social and economic life are as old as recorded history, and they always have features that are universal in their perverse effects regardless of time or place. One ...