Located in the Cusco region of Peru at 2,400m above sea level, lie the ruins of Machu Picchu, the most familiar icon of the Inca civilization. Most archaeologists maintain that Machu Picchu was built ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - A 500-year-old mummy of an Incan girl has been returned to Bolivia some 129 years after it was donated to the Michigan State University Museum, marking what an official says is ...

In his breakout 2010 debut HHhH, the French novelist Laurent Binet expressed deep doubt about the validity of writing historical fiction — or, rather, his narrator did. Binet's invented history is, ...

Peruvian cultural officials have announced that a cutting-edge electronic survey of the southeastern city of Cusco will allow archaeologists to search for buried artifacts without having to dig, ...

LIMA (Reuters) - Researchers at an archeological site in northern Peru have made an unusually large discovery of nearly three dozen people sacrificed some 600 years ago by the Incan civilization. The ...

In many regions in the Andes, where the Inca Empire once flourished, mummies are frequently discovered. It has become clear that there was a mummy culture unlike any other seen in the world. Why did ...

This series unfolds in four episodes. The three episodes reveal the secrets behind the rise and fall of the Incan, Aztec, and Mayan civilizations, together with is a travelogue of the pre-Columbian ...

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 ...

In Pisco Valley in Peru lies a 20-meter-long belt of about 7,000 shallow holes. Their purpose has left researchers baffled for years, according to Ancient Origins. But now researchers think that the ...

Located near Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, the millennia-old city of Tiwanaku was built almost 13,000 feet (4,000 meters) above sea level, making it one of the highest urban centers ever constructed.

Weekly new civilization reveals continue for the fourth week in a row with Firaxis today revealing the Inca for Civilization VI's upcoming Gathering Storm expansion. While Canada from last week is ...