For more than a millennium, many Andean peoples used an object called a "khipu" (also spelled "quipu" and pronounced "key-poo ...

The Australian Museum’s new exhibition, Machu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru, includes a complex inventory system ...

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Salta, Argentina - May 28, 2020 It has been 25 years since the discovery of the Children of Llullaillaco -also known as the ...

When you think of the ancient world, the Incan Empire might come to mind. With fantastic terraces and storehouses in the ancient Inca ruins at Ollantaytambo, the famous Machu Picchu, and the circular ...

In the film, Paddington discovers a knotted string bracelet said to contain an ancient secret. Far from being ropy Holywood nonsense, this hidden language really did exist.

Some people are unfathomably rich. According to Forbes, as of March 2024, Bernard Arnault is the wealthiest man alive, with ...

Pyramids of various sorts also appear in the ancient African kingdom of Kush ... among the people who were the ancestors of the Inca empire, and in that country's northern Andes, the Inca heartland.

A new study reveals that the capacocha ritual of child sacrifice, practiced by the Incas, involved ceremonial use of ceramic ...

Peruvian authorities said Tuesday they have tightened security at the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu after tourists there were ...

It has endured as one of history’s most compelling acts of honour and, ultimately, betrayal. While we can never definitively ...

LIMA: Peruvian authorities said on Tuesday (Nov 19) they have tightened security at the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu after tourists there were filmed dispersing what were believed to be human ashes.