Inca polities on Peru’s south coast,” says Bongers. “They were particularly famous for their mercantile activity.” The Band ...

PAYNE*** had to overcome a poor start in a fast-closing third-place finish, and the Oaklawn horse-for-course wheels back at the same level and may notch his eighth career win over this track. HAP HOT ...

With new technology, smarter tools, and a lot of patient digging, historians and archaeologists are uncovering marvels from every corner of the world. One day it’s an enormous thigh bone from a ...

To the Inca people of what’s now South America, the total lunar eclipse indicated that a jaguar had gobbled up the moon. They ...

In 1532, Francisco Pizarro led fewer than 200 men against the mighty Inca Empire—and won. This is the shocking story of how ...

A new bioarchaeological study has identified what researchers describe as the first known case of deliberate mummification applied to a child sacrificed during the Inca capacocha ritual. The finding ...

A better understanding of the bedrock can help researchers calculate how quickly the continent's melting glaciers might ...

With new technology, smarter tools, and a lot of patient digging, historians and archaeologists are uncovering marvels from every corner of the world. One day it’s an enormous thigh bone from a ...