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 ...

In 2018, researchers in the United States discovered titanium white in 400-plus-year-old ceremonial wooden drinking cups made by the Inca and residing today in various museums. Carved with ...

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 ...

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 ...

The body was surrounded by offerings for the Inca gods, including llama bones, small carved figurines, and bits of pottery. Juanita was wrapped in a colorful burial tapestry and wearing a ...

This spring, 12 Princeton undergraduates in the course "Inca Art and Architecture" learned firsthand the critical role that landscape can play in the structure of a civilization — while challenging ...

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 ...

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 ...