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 ...

Inside, you’ll see pre-Inca and Inca artifacts, including ceramics, ceremonial objects, and dolls. There are also murals and carvings depicting the history of the empire and the brutal period of ...

The "finely carved" bath averages some two-meters in depth ... or "benches" for the Inca, Peru's culture ministry said in a statement. The Huanuco Pampa archaeological site is part of the Qhapaq ...

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.

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 ...

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.