Definitive proof of smallpox was found in the remains of two people who lived in the Inca Empire during the start of Spanish ...

Rising from obscurity to the heights of power, a succession of Andean rulers subdued kingdoms, sculpted mountains, and forged ...

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 ...

Ancient DNA from Inca mummies is the first genetic proof that European colonists brought smallpox to the Americas. The post ...

ANTH copy 39088019656784 gift from Paul R. Julian. Introduction -- Discovering the Incas and their predecessors -- Native and Spanish sources -- Explorers and the first archaeologists -- 20th-century ...

Inca society kept records by encoding information into knotted cords called khipu. A new analysis of hair woven into these cords suggests this... A lock of hair may have just changed what we know ...

In the remote town of Huaytará, Peru, the building that houses the Church of San Juan Bautista is more than what it seems. It was built upon a three-walled Incan structure called a carpa uasi that ...

Steeped in death, conquest, desire, and mystery, the legend of the lost Inca gold is guarded by remote, mist-veiled mountains ...

The mysterious Inca Empire is a source of endless fascination to many, representing the largest and most elaborate society of ...

In many regions in the Andes, where the Inca Empire once flourished, mummies are frequently discovered. It has become clear that there was a mummy culture unlike any other seen in the world. Why did ...