A 500-year-old Inca khipu made from human hair is challenging the long-held belief that only elites created these intricate record-keeping tools. Chemical analysis of the hair revealed a diet ...

According to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has the statue in its collection, the llama stands about 2 inches (5.1 ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Inca never built a world of silicon chips or copper-wired circuits, and the high-speed hardware of modern times was something they simply didn’t ...

The Inca were a powerful Indigenous civilization that emerged in South America during the early 1200s and flourished until ...

The snake on this Wari vessel (800-1000 AD) represented a sacred animal symbolically linked with water and fertility. Ernest Amoroso, NMAI/SI A belt (ca. 1450) made from the shell of a mollusk ...

Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of an ancient temple, roadway and irrigation systems at a famed fortress overlooking the Inca capital of Cuzco, according to officials involved with the dig.

"Land of the Four Quarters" or Tahuantinsuyu is the name the Inca gave to their empire. It stretched north to south some 2,500 miles along the high mountainous Andean range from Colombia to Chile and ...

A newly analyzed 500-year-old Inca khipu made from human hair suggests record‑keeping skills may have extended beyond the elite class. Chemical analysis of the hair indicates it belonged to a highland ...

WASHINGTON, DC — Each June in Huinchiri, Peru, four Quechua communities on two sides of a gorge join together to build a bridge out of grass, creating a form of ancient infrastructure that dates back ...

Two Inca children slated for ritual sacrifice more than 500 years ago quaffed a special soothing concoction that has gone undetected until now. Those young victims, most likely a girl and a boy ...