The Inca Empire practiced a form of Communism, prioritizing collective survival and state-mandated labor without money or ...

What remains of the Inca legacy is limited, as the conquistadors plundered what they could of Inca treasures and in so doing, dismantled the many structures painstakingly built by Inca craftsmen to ...

The vibrant feathers of Amazonian parrots were both a fashion statement and a symbol of power for civilizations predating the Inca Empire. And these early fashion leaders went to great lengths for the ...

Operations in the ancient Incan world would sometimes involve scraping and drilling holes in the skull, a surgery researchers now know was so refined in ancient Peru that survival rates during the ...

The Inca Empire in South America, one of the most powerful pre-Columbian societies, was known for many innovations — such as the architecture of Machu Picchu, an extensive road network, and a system ...

New analysis of ancient parrot DNA has revealed that vibrant Amazonian parrots were transported alive across the Andes to coastal Peru centuries before the Inca Empire, highlighting a sophisticated ...

When you slide a 500-year-old frozen child into a high-resolution CT scanner, you expect to see the preservation of the past. What you don’t expect to find are stones where a heart should be and the ...

New CT scans of Inca child mummies show how sacrifice rituals were carefully controlled and continued after death.

A cotton and agave fiber Inca khipu is seen at an exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in 2015 in Washington, D.C. (Brendan Smialowski | AFP via Getty Images) The Inca ...