In a breakthrough discovery, archaeologists have unearthed a hidden labyrinth beneath the historic city of Cusco, Peru, confirming centuries-old rumors of a labyrinth stretching beneath the ancient ...

Researchers used drones to get another look at the "Band of Holes" along Monte Sierpe, and their work suggests that the Inca ...

The tomb likely belonged to elites from the Riricancho society, which existed in the city prior to the Incas and populated Lima over 500 years ago, lead archaeologist Julio Abanto told Reuters. The ...

New research suggests the Band of Holes in southern Peru may have been first a market and later an Inca accounting device.

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 ...

A 400-year warm spell helped the ancient Inca to build the largest empire ever to exist in the Americas, a new study has established. Beginning around 1100 A.D., the increase in temperature served as ...

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 ...

The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content. While today we use the term Inca to refer to all people who were ruled under the empire – from ...

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