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 ...
The Incan Temple of the Sun in Cusco has long been a visual and cultural jewel of the ancient empire. But there’s even more ...
A RARE well-preserved mummy of a young Incan girl is being returned to its native homeland of Bolivia. The 500-year-old mummy nicknamed ‘Princess’ is notable for having braided hair that looks ...
While the ancient Egyptians may be the best-known mummy makers, they were far from the first. A very sophisticated fishing tribe called the Chinchoros, who lived on the north coast of what is now ...
The Inca Trail is approximately 26 miles long and leads to one of the most iconic sites in the world: Machu Picchu. Millions of people trek to the 15th-century Citadel to see a well-preserved Incan ...
The Incas performed child sacrifices during or after important events, such as the death of the Sapa Inca (emperor) or during a famine. Children were selected as sacrificial victims as they were ...
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 ...
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 ...
Peruvians from the Huinchiri community in Cusco region are rebuilding a 500-year-old Incan hanging bridge, made using traditional weaving techniques to literally string a crossing together spanning ...
HUINCHIRI, Peru—The Incas didn't invent the wheel, never figured out the arch, and never discovered iron. But they were masters of fiber. They built ships out of fiber. (You can still find reed boats ...
In American universities, engineering students typically learn that military and civil engineering originated in Europe, and they study the European tradition almost exclusively—with maybe a glance ...
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