This gilt-copper nose ornament, discovered at the archaeological site of Loma Negra in northern Peru, depicts the important ...

Over 500 years ago, a teenage Inca girl died during a ritual sacrifice high in the Andes Mountains in present-day Peru. Now, an artist has created a reconstruction of what the so-called “Inca Ice ...

Symbols, ideology, ritual, and power -- Ethnohistoric data on human sacrifice and mountain worship -- The archaeological materials from Cerro Esmeralda -- Discussion of the materials from Cerro ...

THE SNOWCAPPED VOLCANIC PEAK the Andean cordillera looms majestic and forbidding above the Peruvian town of Cabanaconde, and for 500 years its summit has been wreathed in pellucid ice as high as a man ...

A powerful culture that lasted from 1438 to 1533, the Incas controlled their vast empire, spanning present-day Peru and Chile, by leveraging military might and religious authority. They relied heavily ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of more than 140 children in the northern coast of Peru in what appears to have been the largest instance of mass child sacrifice in the Americas - if not the ...

Archaeologist and mummy expert Ramy Romany crisscrosses the globe, investigating history’s greatest mysteries by prying answers from the dead. Was Moses an Egyptian Pharaoh and father of King Tut? Did ...