Archeologists discover oldest non-royal mummy ever in Egypt 01:31. The possible living face of Peru's most famous mummy, a teenage Inca girl sacrificed in a ritual more than 500 years ago atop the ...

Grave Analysis. Many of the later burials found in the Puruchuco cemetery on the outskirts of Lima, Peru—as seen in "The Great Inca Rebellion"—showed signs of having died extremely violent ...

Scientists have unearthed an Inca-era tomb in the heart of Peru's capital Lima, archaeologists said on Wednesday, a burial dug up under a working-class home and believed to hold noble remains ...

Item 1 of 3 Archaeologists work in the remains of an ancient ceremonial Inca bathroom, discovered in a sector known as Inkawasi (House of the Inca), at the archaeological site Huanuco Pampa, in ...

Three children used as ritual sacrifices by the Inca civilization centuries ago were given a significant amount of drugs and alcohol for months before their deaths, according to an analysis of the ...

Even so, by 1570, the Inca had stopped using titanium dioxide. Last year, Kaplan and her colleagues learned that Incan craftspeople switched to lead white, which the conquistadors brought from Europe.

Explore Inca life beyond Machu Picchu on this South American trail. Hiking amid Andean peaks, ancient ruins—and no crowds—on this 19,000-mile stone path from Colombia to Argentina.

If bones could scream, a bloodcurdling din would be reverberating through a 500-year-old cemetery in Peru. Human skeletons unearthed there have yielded the first direct evidence of Inca fatalities ...

Researchers have uncovered fascinating new insights into an ancient mountaintop settlement high up in the Peruvian Andes, which pre-dates the famous Inca site of Machu Picchu.

Inca Origins. Special | 1m 31s Video has Closed Captions | CC. A temple at the center of Cuzco, Peru, marks the place of Inca origins. The Qorikancha is closely associated with the Inca origin story.

A new exhibit at the National Museum of the American Indian highlights the engineering prowess of the Inca, whose great road once spanned mountains, deserts and forests in 6 South American countries.

Utility workers excavating trenches to expand the network of natural gas pipelines in Peru’s capital have uncovered a pre-Inca mummy approximately 1,000 years old, barely 20 inches from the surface.