Inca society kept records by encoding information into knotted cords called khipu. A new analysis of hair woven into these ...

Archaeologists have long suspected khipus were highly personal tools, with the hair serving as the author’s “signature.” ...

Inca bureaucrats recorded all the goings-on in their bustling empire using knotted cords called khipu, where the position and ...

Incan society was so rich that it could afford to have hundreds of people who specialized in planning the agricultural uses of newly-conquered areas.

Researchers have re-created the face of Juanita, an Incan girl preserved as a frozen mummy in the Andes after a human sacrifice around 500 years ago.

Incan fortresses built some 500 years ago have been discovered along an extinct volcano in northern Ecuador, revealing evidence of a war fought by the Inca just before the Spanish conquistadors ...

Today, there is just one Incan grass bridge left, the keshwa chaca, a sagging 90-foot span that stretches between two sides of a steep gorge, near Huinchiri, Peru.

The face of Peru's most famous mummy, a teen Incan girl sacrificed in the Andes snow more than 500 years ago, was reconstructed in a bust unveiled Tuesday.

Tombs containing the remains of two children thought to have belonged to the Incan societal elite have been discovered by a group of experts in northern Peru in the boundaries of a 500-year-old ...

The find was announced by Peru's Ministry of Culture, which says the 13-angled stone was part of a water system that irrigated a strategically important area southeast of Lima.

Incan ‘Ice Maiden’ Revealed in Hyperrealistic Facial Reconstruction A new facial approximation brings to life an Incan girl who was killed 500 years ago as part of a sacrificial ritual ...