Peru, a land of timeless beauty and rich history, offers an extraordinary journey through the heart of the Inca Empire and beyond. From the iconic Machu Picchu, nestled high in the Andes, to the ...

Utility workers excavating trenches to expand the network of natural gas pipelines in Peru’s capital have uncovered a pre-Inca mummy approximately 1,000 years old, barely 20 inches from the ...

A pre-Hispanic mummy dating back 1,000 years was recently found by utility workers in Lima, Peru, with archaeologists linking ...

The Tiwanaku civilization was one of the first and most powerful in the Andes region, but by 1000 A.D., it had collapsed.

A newly discovered temple in the Bolivian Andes once served as ceremonial crossroads where llama caravans carrying ...

Four mummified llamas buried alive 500 years ago by the Inca Empire found perfectly preserved in Peru, revealing secrets of ...

Lake Titicaca was a sacred space to the ancient Andean empire of the Inca, which at its height in the early 16th century controlled territory from modern-day Colombia to Chile.The Inca built more ...

Professor Hyland said “Diet varied by status in the Inca Empire. Commoners ate a diet of potatoes, legumes, and quinoa grasses. Elites ate meat and drank large quantities of maize beer.

The research, undertaken by Professor Sabine Hyland at the University of St. Andrews, reveals that the enigmatic form of communication, known as quipu (also written as khipu), helped record ...

Scholars now believe that the Incas often used these numerical records to count goods. In 2013 and 2014, for instance, archaeologists excavated an Inca storehouse and found several khipus ...

These tunnels are estimated to date to the late 15th or early 16th century, likely during the height of the Inca Empire under rulers such as Pachacuti or Huayna Capac.

📜 The Inca Empire: Life of a Dead Emperor - To understand daily life in the Inca Empire, we travel from Cusco to Quito (located in modern-day Ecuador), where Thupa Inca wanted to establish a ...