Explore the Inca Empire's Road Network, the Qhapaq Ñan. This ancient engineering marvel connected a vast civilization across challenging mountainous terrai ...

The Inca Empire stretched across the Andes and operated in ways that shocked outsiders used to Old World empires. It had no ...

Rising from obscurity to the heights of power, a succession of Andean rulers subdued kingdoms, sculpted mountains, and forged ...

The once-in-a-lifetime discovery of unlooted graves containing ancient weapons, jewelry, and 38 skeletons provides insight ...

Archaeologists excavating Chan Chan, the capital of the pre-Inca Chimú civilization, found an undisturbed mausoleum that held ...

ANTH copy 39088019656784 gift from Paul R. Julian. Introduction -- Discovering the Incas and their predecessors -- Native and Spanish sources -- Explorers and the first archaeologists -- 20th-century ...

In the remote town of Huaytará, Peru, the building that houses the Church of San Juan Bautista is more than what it seems. It was built upon a three-walled Incan structure called a carpa uasi that ...

The 14,000-foot-high plain of the Andes, where the Inca civilization flourished five centuries ago, is as barren a land as the world possesses. With its packs of llamas running across the puna, ...

Inca King Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui dispatched his son, Prince Tupac Inca Yupanqui, to lead the army north and complete the expedition to Ecuador. On his way north, he conquered Guzmango. During his ...

In many regions in the Andes, where the Inca Empire once flourished, mummies are frequently discovered. It has become clear that there was a mummy culture unlike any other seen in the world. Why did ...

For over half a century, it was believed that the child from Cerro El Plomo died from hypothermia during an Inca ritual sacrifice. However, new scientific studies challenge this idea. For decades, it ...