The llama represents the Inca’s sturdy beast of burden. This wasn’t the first such discovery made in the lake. Tantalizing rumors of submerged treasure drew Spanish conquistadors to Titicaca ...

From the seat of government in Cusco, the Inca managed a vast territory stretching over 770,000 square miles. Controlling ...

Up until the time of the Spanish conquest in the 16th century, Inca communities in the Andean highlands used a peculiar form ...

In 2018, researchers in the United States discovered titanium white in 400-plus-year-old ceremonial wooden drinking cups made by the Inca and residing today in various museums. Carved with ...

Ongoing research from the University of St Andrews has discovered that khipus, the mysterious string writing of the Incas, have been used to ...

A well-made reconstruction allows us to show the people who were behind the story we want to tell.” The Inca Empire, which lasted from around 1200 to 1533, once stretched for 2,500 miles (4,023 ...

LIMA, April 14 (Reuters) - Archaeologists in the Peruvian Andes have discovered an Inca bathing complex built half a millennia ago, which they believe may have served the elite of the sprawling ...

The discovery was made in the Chimu capital of Chan Chan ... They were subjugated by the Inca in the late 1400s, several decades before Spanish invaders conquered the Inca in 1532.

The possible living face of Peru's most famous mummy, a teenage Inca girl sacrificed in a ritual more than 500 years ago atop the Andes, was unveiled Tuesday. The silicone-made bust portrays a ...