Two small, wrinkled lumps of potato were found buried inside a ceramic jar on the floor of an ancient storage room on the ...

ANTH copy 39088019656784 gift from Paul R. Julian. Introduction -- Discovering the Incas and their predecessors -- Native and Spanish sources -- Explorers and the first archaeologists -- 20th-century ...

pt. 1. The lords described. The hummingbird ; The hummingbird's people ; Cuzcoquiti ; Down the valley to Huanacauri ; Huanacauri to Muina ; The three roots of the Inca stock ; The Incas as a caste ; ...

For centuries, the vanished Inca fortress of Ancocagua existed only in lore. Now, at a mountaintop site in Peru, researchers are zeroing in on a discovery that could reshape what we know of the empire ...

New discoveries reveal Cusco, Peru, was more than just ancient stone walls. Specialists have found a large underground city ...

Standing atop the mountains in the southern highlands of Peru is the 15th-century marvel of the Inca empire, Machu Picchu. Today, the citadel is a global tourist attraction and an icon of precolonial ...

A new study challenges widespread notions about khipus, intricate cord and knot information-recording systems, based on Spanish colonial-era sources. Reading time 2 minutes The Inca were a ...

Roughly a century before the Inca empire came to power in A.D. 1400, blasts of human-produced thunder may have rumbled off a ridge high in the Andes Mountains. New evidence indicates that people who ...

LIMA, July 8 (Reuters) - Archaeologists in Peru have discovered the remains of what is believed to be wealthy members of the Chimu civilization, a pre-Inca society that thrived for centuries in arid ...