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 ...

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 ...

KUSA - Actress Carolina Guerra says she's never had as challenging a role as this one. Guerra plays an Incan priestess in the second season of "Da Vinci's Demons." The show is a fictional take on the ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has discovered how Incas used Andean balance scales and ancient string knot ...

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

"We recovered some archaeological remains that were inside a four-meter deep pit. There we found three funerary bundles containing more than one body with rich grave goods corresponding to the Inca ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Although the ancient Inca are renowned for their highly organized society and extraordinary skill in working with gold, stone and pottery, few are familiar with the khipu -- an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...