Explore Machu Picchu in Orlando through a large-scale immersive VR experience. Walk ancient terraces, witness a solar eclipse ...
The Incas have the double distinction of presiding over the largest empire of the ancient Americas and one of the shortest-lived. Sprawling along the Pacific Coast and across the Andes Mountains to ...
SANTA CRUZ — A recently published study, co-authored by UC Santa Cruz Anthropology Professor Lars Fehren-Schmitz, analyzing the 500 year-old DNA of those buried near Peru’s iconic Incan citadel Machu ...
The Peruvian town of Huaytará is home to a 15th-century Inca building that’s unusually simple for the civilization, which is known for its intricate architecture, like the structures seen across Machu ...
Inca Advances into the Eastern Tropics: The Amazon and Chaco in Perspective / Sonia Alconini -- Rock Shrines, Ceque Lines and Pilgrimage in the Provinces / Jessica Joyce Christie -- Heritage Tourism ...
Although the ancient Inca are renowned for their highly organized society and extraordinary skill in working with gold, stone and pottery, few are familiar with the khipu—an elaborate system of ...
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 ...
Incan qeros from the National Museum of the American Indian. The white pigment “often appears yellowish over time,” says Emily Kaplan. National Museum of the American Indian In 1908, at a lab in ...