Located roughly 300 miles north of Lima in Río Abiseo National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Gran Pajatén complex ...

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

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

The Atlantic has a fascinating deep dive into khipus — long cords that the Inca tied knots into to preserve information. Few ...

The volume of all the gold in the Inca Empire would have been almost 14 times greater than all the gold then in Europe at that time. Pizarro’s plunder would have been worth more than $387 ...

The election of Leo XIV to the papacy has put an unexpected spotlight on one of the most unusual treasures of Catholic ...

Researchers studying an ancient form of string-writing used in pre-Columbian South America have unraveled new clues to a ...

A post shared on Reddit in September 2022, for example, claimed to show a 15-year-old girl who lived and was sacrificed 500 years ago during the Incan Empire. Pictured in these outlets is one of ...

Nearly 500 years after the collapse of the largest empire in the Americas, a single bridge remains from the Inca's extraordinary road system – and it's rewoven every year from grass. "I believe ...

These new findings challenge previously held beliefs about the nature of ritual child sacrifices to the Sun god in the Inca empire, particularly during the harvest month. Close to his death ...