Courtesy of T. Seguin / Université libre de Bruxelles In the 15th or 16th century, members of the Inca civilization fashioned a stone box filled with sacred offerings and dropped it deep into ...

Buried alongside the mummies are statuettes, carvings, and castings made from gold, silver, wood, and spondyllus, a spiny oyster shell from the coast of Ecuador that was highly prized by the Inca.

The carved stone container holds a miniature llama ... The meaning of these objects to the Inca are unclear. The location of the K’akaya offering indicates that Inca people regarded all of ...

Typical Tiwanaku-period offerings at Khoa Reef in Lake Titicaca, Bolivia, including stone carvings and sacrificial animal bones. Image courtesy of Teddy Seguin Hundreds of years before the Inca ...

Sacred Valley Of PeruThis symbolic temple reflects the spiritual beliefs of the Inca, carved with precision into the Sacred Valley’s bedrock.#TempleOfTheCondor#IncaSpirituality#SacredValley ...

Five hundred years ago, without the benefit of steel scalpels or antibiotics, the Inca performed a type of operation called trepanation—literally carving holes in patients' skulls. How did they ...

The two staffs have carved iconography that suggests the people ... Empire but then it grew substantially during the time of the Inca, who flourished during the 15th century.

A carving of a human with a bird’s head and a painting were found at the ancient temple. Peru Ministry of Culture Before the Spanish conquest of Peru, the Inca were an expansive culture known ...