Explore the ancient Manteno civilization of coastal Ecuador, discovered by historian Jacinto Jijon Y Caamano. Learn about ...

TV historian Dan Snow goes to the ancient site of Machu Picchu in Peru where he makes some exciting discoveries ...

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

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

New research on the remains of a handful of Inca child sacrifice victims has given scientists more clues as to how this ...

The Inca Empire was a vast empire that flourished in the Andean region of South America from the early 15th century A.D. up until its conquest by the Spanish in the 1530s. Even after the conquest ...

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

The Inca emperor Atahualpa received warning that Spanish invaders were on their way. Because there were so few Spanish and Atahualpa commanded an army of 5,000, the Inca did not seem to consider ...

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 ...

Today: Swedish forensic artist Oscar Nilsson combined CT scans of frozen mummified remains with skull measurements and DNA analysis to reconstruct the face of a 500-year-old Inca girl.

Now lucuma, which is also known as the “gold of the Incas,” is showing up in everything from lattes to paleo snack bars, thanks to its enjoyable flavor and perceived health halo. Sold in the ...

Mummy of another Inca girl sacrificed in a volcano, Llullaillaco in Argentina. Credit: grooverpedro / Wikimedia Commons / Flickr The discovery of an Inca mummy on the Quehuar Volcano, located in the ...