The museum in La Paz had been closed for a year; its new permanent collection exhibition includes a mummified girl ...

Three decades ago, researchers working atop the Llullaillaco volcano, located on the border between Argentina and Chile, discovered exceptionally well-preserved remains. The find included the ...

Tables and chairs were stacked inside Inca Mexican Restaurant on June 3 as owner Mario Gutierrez packed up the longtime Fort Collins business following its May 31 closure, ending a 24-year run on ...

Mummy returned after 119 years in Buenos Aires museum to Kolla indigenous community Kolla leader says child symbolizes cultural identity and enduring traditions University of Buenos Aires apologized ...

An Australian tourist has died after falling into a ravine whilst hiking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu in Peru. Matthew Paton’s body was found on Thursday evening local time, his employer, Victoria ...

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 ...

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Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Inca quipu was a complex ...

Around 500 years ago, four young girls in South America were bashed in the head and sacrificed in a gruesome Inca ritual. Researchers have conducted CT scans of their mummified remains, previously ...

A hillside in Peru covered by more than 5000 aligned holes may have been a giant Inca accounting device – a spreadsheet, but on a monumental scale. Tracing across the slopes of Monte Sierpe (Serpent ...

The Peruvian town of Huaytará is home to a 15th-century Inca building that’s unusually simple for the civilization, which is known for its intricate architecture, like the structures seen across Machu ...

ST. ANDREWS, SCOTLAND—Science reports that recent analysis of an Inca recordkeeping device in the collection of the University of St. Andrews is upending what archaeologists previously thought about ...