Researchers have re-created the face of Juanita, an Incan girl preserved as a frozen mummy in the Andes after a human sacrifice around 500 years ago.

Ramos told us the legend surrounding its origins: an Incan priest fleeing the Spanish had mysteriously disappeared through the doorway and into another dimension. It was a quiet, eerie place.

In Inca legend, the god Viracocha emerged from the sparkling waters to invent the sun, stars, moon and universe. “These days, people come here and go back feeling younger. The lake has a ...

An Incan child from Chile’s Cerro El Plomo ritually sacrificed over 500 years ago and well preserved as a frozen mummy did not die “peacefully” as previously believed, but from a blow to the ...

Archaeologists in northern Peru have discovered a 3,000-year-old burial. Inside it lay one of the first priests in ancient Andean history, a man who lived well before the time of the Inca.

Pre-Incan “Astronomer Priests” Built Giant Structures Aligned To The Milky Way Ancient Andeans saw the Milky Way as a life-giving river of stars. Benjamin Taub ...

Legend has it that an Inca priest in possession of a golden disk, placed it in a small depression in the doorway. This caused it to open and the golden disk supposedly dropped from the sky.

The Incas built thousands of kilometers of roads that connected the entire Empire, and at certain intervals there were tambos. They were places for storing grain; messengers were also stationed there.

Bolivia's first Indian "congress" since the fall of the Inca Empire (1533) gathered in La Paz last week. Representing 70% of the population, they came from all parts of Bolivia at ...