One archaeologist called the tombs “the discovery of the decade” as the first burials from the Chimu kingdom to have escaped ...

Machu Picchu above Aguas Calientes in Peru combines precise Inca stonework with a dramatic Andean setting; its terraces and ...

This individual was buried with the “Master Basketmaker.” Credit: Weronika Tomczyk Bone remains and a mummified dog suggest ...

Discover 25 incredible things about the Incas that will astonish you! Explore their vast empire, earthquake-proof ...

On a hill above Cusco, the former capital of the Inca Empire, stands a wall built from stones so enormous and so perfectly ...

Machu Picchu is a fifteenth-century Inca citadel built high in the Andes above the town of Aguas Calientes in southern Peru. Set on a ridge between steep peaks, it combines stone terraces, temples and ...

In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the royal hunting grounds of the Inca emperor Pachacuti, where the Andes served as both a source of sustenance and a stage for imperial power. They discuss the ...

In the Andes Mountains of Peru, South America, at an altitude of about 2,430 meters. Surrounded by steep mountains, there is a stone city that looks as if it is floating in the sky. Current research ...

In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the Inca cult of ancestor worship, focusing on the mummified remains of royal Inca emperors and their role in the political and religious life of the empire.

In 1954, looters found the mummified remains of a small boy. Soon, archaeologists took over and eventually concluded that the boy, about 8 years old, likely died of hypothermia during an Inca ceremony ...

When the Spanish observed the religious practices of the Incan and neighboring people in the New World, they characterized them very much as “other”; Polytheistic cosmologies, complex ritual ...

Archaeologists in Peru recently uncovered an unusual find: freeze-dried potatoes that date back centuries before the United States was even founded. The potatoes, known as chuño, were found at the ...