New toxicology tests of Incan mummies found the kids were given not just cocaine, but alcohol and chemicals found in ...

In the final month of her life, an eight-year-old girl in the Inca Empire appears to have consumed alcohol while chewing coca ...

Inca children were drugged before they were sacrificed, mummy discovery confirms - There were distinct differences between the substances given to each sacrificed Inca individual ...

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Known for their impressive fortifications, terraces, and royal residences—including Machu Picchu—the Inca Empire dominated the Urubamba River Basin in the 15th century until its untimely demise.

The Chachapoyas region was conquered by the Inca Empire in the late 15th century. Knowledge of the fate of the local population has been based largely on Inca oral histories, written down only decades ...

The ancient citadel of Machu Picchu in the southern Peruvian Andes is not only world-renowned for being the most impressive legacy of the Inca people; it’s also a feat of architectural ingenuity that ...

Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, ...

A new study challenges widespread notions about khipus, intricate cord and knot information-recording systems, based on Spanish colonial-era sources. Reading time 2 minutes The Inca were a ...

Village authorities insisted on handling the khipus without gloves to feel the fibre differences. (Credit: William Hyland) Two vibrant bundles of string, over 10,000 feet high in the Peruvian Andes, ...

ANTH copy 39088019656784 gift from Paul R. Julian. Introduction -- Discovering the Incas and their predecessors -- Native and Spanish sources -- Explorers and the first archaeologists -- 20th-century ...

During the reign of the Inca Empire, which spanned a large territory in western South America from the 13th to the 16th centuries, children and young women were regularly sacrificed to important gods ...