The ancient Inca were a textile society and thus skilled in working with natural fibers including alpaca and cotton. Still, it might surprise people today that their solution to crossing the canyons ...

The post Advanced Analysis Of Inca “Hair Records” Show That Everyday People Used This Technique Of Records Keeping, Using Their Own Hair first on TwistedSifter. For years, historians believed that ...

He has delicate fingers and hugs his knees, one foot over the other, as if to keep warm. His hair is plaited in more than 200 braids, and miniature idols and keepsakes accompany him in his frozen tomb ...

This article is part of our Summer reads series. Visit the full collection for book lists, guest essays and more seasonal distractions. SPAIN’S CONQUEST of the Inca empire in the 16th century was ...

Roughly a century before the Inca empire came to power in A.D. 1400, blasts of human-produced thunder may have rumbled off a ridge high in the Andes Mountains. New evidence indicates that people who ...

pt. 1. The lords described. The hummingbird ; The hummingbird's people ; Cuzcoquiti ; Down the valley to Huanacauri ; Huanacauri to Muina ; The three roots of the Inca stock ; The Incas as a caste ; ...

The idol of Pachacamac was already 700 years old when Spanish conquistadors arrived in Peru, according to radiocarbon dating of the wood. People journeyed from all over the Andes to consult the statue ...

The emergency excavation of a 500-year-old cemetery under a Lima shantytown has produced the largest trove of Inca mummies ever discovered in Peru--a finding that already is changing established views ...

Archaeologists in Bolivia have recovered a fully intact underwater Inca offering containing a miniature llama figurine and a gold bracelet. The offering, dropped into Lake Titicaca some 500 years ago, ...

Long before computers existed, the Inca people collected data and kept records using knotted strings known as quipu. That technology has inspired a new system for assessing gastrointestinal problems, ...

LIMA (Reuters) - Archaeologists in Peru have discovered the remains of what is believed to be wealthy members of the Chimu civilization, a pre-Inca society that thrived for centuries in arid plains ...