The Inca practiced the sacrificial ritual of capacocha, which involved sacrificing children from noble families for various ...

In more recent times, civil unrest broke out in the Peruvian Andes in ... If the Inca king could not conquer the Titicaca lords who owned these vast herds, he would live in fear of the day these ...

where the Inca offered human sacrifices to their Gods. Over the years, some 115 of these sacrificial mummies have been found in the high Andes. In 1995, Dr. Johan Reinhard stumbled upon the body ...

Around 40,000 Inca nobles ruled an empire of 12 million conquered people throughout the Andes mountain range in South America. The Incas diverted rivers and used sophisticated irrigation systems ...

Robert Answer: The Andes, of course ... being chopped out of live rock in the same manner in which the Egyptians, for example, quarried their rocks. So the Incas were apparently aware of and ...

Archaeologists have analyzed textiles from the ancient city of Huacas de Moche, Peru, showing how the population's cultural ...

The Inca Empire once stretched 2,500 miles along the Andes of western South America. At its height, it was one of the largest empires in the world and, in geographic terms, the most extensive polity ...

But among the holiest places in the empire were mountain peaks, which the Inca and other peoples in the Andes often regarded as representing the origin points of societies, and the resting places ...

A group of woman from Southern Alberta hiked for several days to Machu Picchu, even though some of them had never camped ...

This book offers a detailed account of Inca history, society, and culture through the lens of archaeology, written documents, and ethnographic accounts of native Andeans. Throughout the Andes, public ...

Peru is celebrating two decades since the creation of a genetically modified breed of guinea pig, a rodent whose meat has ...