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.

While laying gas pipes in Lima’s Puente Piedra district, workers uncovered a 1,000-year-old pre-Inca mummy just half a metre underground.

Along with some 100 images of everyday objects and scenes, “Point Blank” will include vignettes by the writers Lucy Sante and Jackie Hamilton.

Andean people of the past looked at these strings as a record of the climate, and they studied them to understand patterns.

The Inca string code that reveals Peru's climate history by Sabine Hyland, The Conversation edited by Lisa Lock, reviewed by Andrew Zinin Editors' notes ...

In the Andean highlands near Lake Titicaca, Sebastian Quimicchi — an Inca from the town of San Pedro de Cocharcas — commissioned a painted copy of the sculpture "Our Lady ...

INCA’s Key proposals: The independent network sector working closely with government to develop a plan-of-action to meet 100% coverage and encourage adoption of networks. Making tackling data and ...

Read about INCA calls on government to act on Lords Inquiry into home-based working. Broadband news from the longest running independent information website.

The Atlantic has a fascinating deep dive into khipus — long cords that the Inca tied knots into to preserve information. Few know how to read the knots, which are hundreds of years old and ...

These writing systems, then—including, possibly, Inca khipus—could illuminate how and why our ancestors first adopted written language: a record of one of the most consequential changes in ...

Utahn Gary Bybee, 86, hiked Peru's Inca Trail earlier this month, reportedly becoming the oldest person ever to complete the mountainous trek to Machu Picchu.