Ancient cities and cultures are a subject of fascination all over the world. Peru was home to a number of cultures in the ancient and medieval periods including the Inca Empire. Peru sees between 3 ...

A pre-Hispanic mummy dating back 1,000 years was recently found by utility workers in Lima, Peru, with archaeologists linking it to the Chancay culture that predated the Inca Empire.

Isotopic sampling of the human hair on the Inca khipu shows that the diet of the person who made the khipu was that of a commoner. Professor Hyland said “Diet varied by status in the Inca Empire.

Unraveling the Secrets of the Inca Empire For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

The Inca Empire, known as Tawantinsuyu, was the largest in pre-Columbian America, stretching across modern-day Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, and Colombia.

📜 The Inca Empire: Out of Thin Air - There's a lot that we don't know for sure about the Inca Empire, because we have conflicting accounts among Spanish colonizers, as well as the fact that ...

📜 The Inca Empire: Andean Apocalypse - Disease--likely, smallpox or measles--had arrived in the Inca empire, and it was ruthless. Two of the (now dead) Emperor Huayna Capac's sons, Atahualpa ...

Nearly 500 years after the collapse of the largest empire in the Americas, a single bridge remains from the Inca's extraordinary road system – and it's rewoven every year from grass.

In part 2, the Inca are at their peak, with the largest empire. How did they do it?

If you were wrestling with a spreadsheet in the office this week, be glad you weren’t born during the Inca Empire of ancient Peru. The Excel or Xero spreadsheet of the day was the quipu ...