Long before modern refrigeration, the ancient Inca Empire was preserving food for years and moving it across vast distances.

Researchers working at a major Inca-period sanctuary near Lima, Peru, have used non-invasive geophysical tools to detect clusters of buried buildings, plazas, and water channels that are invisible ...

A team of researchers from Poland, the U.S. and Peru has found evidence that suggests Inca children selected for sacrifice were given drugs to keep them calm prior to their deaths. In their paper ...

The discovery of a vast Inca tunnel system beneath the historic heart of Cusco has turned a whispered legend into mapped stone. After centuries in which locals spoke of a hidden labyrinth running from ...

The remains of seven children apparently killed in a ritual and buried beneath a 500- to 600-year-old building in Peru’s Cuzco Valley have given scientists new glimpses of the sketchily understood ...

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Children sacrificed to the gods by the Incas could have come from different parts of the empire, according to researchers. Researchers discovered the remains of two children laid on the top of two ...