The Incas have the double distinction of presiding over the largest empire of the ancient Americas and one of the shortest-lived. Sprawling along the Pacific Coast and across the Andes Mountains to ...

1. Genre and Context in Inca Historical Narratives -- 2. Structuring Remembered History -- 3. Making History Visible -- 4. Huayna Capac's History -- 5. Huayna Capac's Royal Estate -- 6. The ...

In a recent study, Dr. Claudine Abegg and her colleagues analyzed the remains of a mummified cranium housed in the ...

The genetic lineage of an Incan child mummy has connected him to one of the founding lineages that colonized the Americas. Courtesy of the University of Cuyo press. The mummy of an Incan child who was ...

Steeped in death, conquest, desire, and mystery, the legend of the lost Inca gold is guarded by remote, mist-veiled mountains in central Ecuador. Somewhere deep inside the unforgiving Llanganates ...

The discovery of Peñico in Peru's Supe Valley is reshaping our understanding of the Caral civilisation – a peaceful society that survived climate catastrophe 4,000 years ago.

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 ...

The Inca Empire managed vast territories without a written alphabet, relying instead on a mysterious system of knotted ...

The mummy of an Incan child who was sacrificed to the gods more than 500 years ago belonged to a previously unknown offshoot of an ancient Native American lineage, new research finds. The child, a ...