Incan fortresses built some 500 years ago have been discovered along an extinct volcano in northern Ecuador, revealing evidence of a war fought by the Inca just before the Spanish conquistadors ...

LIMA, Peru — Utility workers excavating trenches to expand underground gas networks in Peru’s capital unearthed two pre-Incan tombs on Thursday. One was empty, but the other held the 1,000-year-old ...

Each khipu strand represented its own decimal number. Recordkeeping wasn’t a mundane statistical task in the Incan empire—it was an artform. Instead of solely relying on scribes to maintain ledgers on ...

Operations in the ancient Incan world would sometimes involve scraping and drilling holes in the skull, a surgery researchers now know was so refined in ancient Peru that survival rates during the ...

Machu Picchu will always be a bucket-list destination, but its popularity comes with drawbacks. Consider this alternative route for a less-crowded experience.

While the ancient Egyptians may be the best-known mummy makers, they were far from the first. A very sophisticated fishing tribe called the Chinchoros, who lived on the north coast of what is now ...

Utility workers in Lima accidentally unearthed two pre-Incan tombs, one of which contained 1,000-year-old human remains and Chancay culture artifacts. Archaeologist José Aliaga confirmed the tomb's ...

LIMA, June 15 (Reuters) - Peruvians from the Huinchiri community in Cusco region are rebuilding a 500-year-old Incan hanging bridge, made using traditional weaving techniques to literally string a ...

A 500-year-old frozen Incan mummy suffered from a bacterial lung infection at the time of its death, as revealed by a novel proteomics method that shows evidence of an active pathogenic infection in ...

When Incan healers scraped or cut a hunk of bone out of a person’s head, they meant business. Practitioners of this technique, known as trepanation, demonstrated great skill more than 500 years ago in ...