Channing Tatum seemingly confirmed his new romance with Australian model Inka Williams when they attended a pre-Oscars party on February 28, 2025. The relationship comes just four months after his ...

A new bioarchaeological study has identified what researchers describe as the first known case of deliberate mummification applied to a child sacrificed during the Inca capacocha ritual. The finding ...

Monmouth College students spent J‑term trekking Peru’s Inca Trail, blending history, culture and endurance in an immersive academic adventure.

Hiking to Machu Picchu has long been on my bucket list. That a 600-year-old abandoned town built by the Incans is still ...

The heaps of khipus emerged from garbage bags in the back of the tiny, one-room museum—clumps of tangled ropes the size of beach balls. Sabine Hyland smiled as she gazed down at them and said, “Qué ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The knots on khipu were coded to carry messages across the Inka empire. This khipu is part of the Great Inka Road: Engineering an Empire ...

The Inka Empire is one of the greatest civilizations in the Western Hemisphere, spanning from the 13th century until the Spanish invasion in 1532. To connect their vast empire, which spanned from ...

"Land of the Four Quarters" or Tahuantinsuyu is the name the Inca gave to their empire. It stretched north to south some 2,500 miles along the high mountainous Andean range from Colombia to Chile and ...

He has delicate fingers and hugs his knees, one foot over the other, as if to keep warm. His hair is plaited in more than 200 braids, and miniature idols and keepsakes accompany him in his frozen tomb ...

The Inca recognized the importance of guano and the islands where the so-called guano birds breed as central to the survival of their civilization — and they responded by implementing the first ever ...

Archaeologists uncover the first case of deliberate mummification of an Inca child, shedding new light on ancient Andean rituals.