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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(CBS/REUTERS) — Archaeologists in Peru have unearthed the remains of a 500-year-old Incan noble found amongst the ruins of the Tucume (TOO-coo-meh) archaeological site, officials reported on Friday ...

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 ...

In American universities, engineering students typically learn that military and civil engineering originated in Europe, and they study the European tradition almost exclusively—with maybe a glance ...

HUINCHIRI, Peru—The Incas didn't invent the wheel, never figured out the arch, and never discovered iron. But they were masters of fiber. They built ships out of fiber. (You can still find reed boats ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Incan children as young as 6 were “fattened up” prior to their sacrificial deaths, a new study ...

A 2014 paper in PLOS ONE has revealed that a mysterious mummy that had languished in German collections for over a century was once an Incan woman who was killed with several strikes to the head, ...