Walking behind the priest in a small procession, the bearers carry the saint for all in the plaza to see, just as the Inca once shouldered the mummies of their revered kings. The names of those ...

The blow is believed to have been skillfully executed. “The chronicles of Spanish priests — who had been in contact with the Inca Empire — described this form of violent death in these offerings, but ...

"Beautiful beyond exaggeration," is how one Spanish chronicler described Tanta Carhua. Carhua was a ten-year old Inca child whose father offered her to the Inca Emperor as a Capacocha sacrifice.

Cristóbal de Molina, a Spanish priest who lived in Cusco around 1565 and observed Inca traditions, described how the Inca burned leaves and blew coca fumes toward the sun—their main deity—and ...

priests and officials of the Inca Empire. Mummified boy from El Plomo hill (Chilean National Museum of Natural History) Before his death, there are signs that the boy walked more than 2,000km ...

"The riches that were gathered in the city of Cuzco alone, as capital and court of the Empire, were incredible," says an early account of Inca culture written 300 years ago by Jesuit priest Father ...

Over several decades, at least 10 priests and missionaries moved to Papua New Guinea after they had allegedly sexually abused children, or had been found to do so, in the West, according to court ...

Afterwards, visit the Qoricancha temple, considered the most sacred Inca building. According to archaeologists it housed over 1000 priests and attendants. It was built over an Inca palace ...

Reducing news to hard lines and side-taking leaves a lot of the story untold. Progress comes from challenging what we hear ...

“The Inca were trying to control that event by offering ... to historical narratives passed down by Spanish officials and ...