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 ...

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 ...

Inca children bound for ritual sacrifices were given the powerful ayahuasca drug before their death, a new study found. The findings, published April 2 in a peer-reviewed journal, are the first to ...

Pisac Ruins, located in Peru’s Sacred Valley, showcase the remarkable engineering of the Inca civilization with their ...

The 14,000-foot-high plain of the Andes, where the Inca civilization flourished five centuries ago, is as barren a land as the world possesses. With its packs of llamas running across the puna, ...

A cotton and agave fiber Inca khipu is seen at an exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in 2015 in Washington, D.C. (Brendan Smialowski | AFP via Getty Images) The Inca ...

The Wari, an ancestor culture to the Incas that flourished throughout the Andean Highlands, expanded their reign largely through trade and semiautonomous colonies, rather than through the iron fist of ...

(CNN) — Five hundred years ago, a teenage girl who was part of the Inca culture was sacrificed and buried near the summit of Ampato, a dormant volcano in the Andes Mountains. Since the discovery of ...

ANALYSIS:Emphasizing horrors of the practice an example of a ‘quite white education’ An 11-year “veteran” history teacher “with a deep love of learning” recently posted a video in which she claims ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Legend of Inca: Mystical Culture Countless secrets entwine around the mystical people of the Incas ... Create an Inca settlement and build all the vital ...