Lake Titicaca was a sacred space to the ancient Andean empire of the Inca, which at its height in the early 16th century controlled territory from modern-day Colombia to Chile. The Inca built more ...

Up until the time of the Spanish conquest in the 16th century, Inca communities in the Andean highlands used a peculiar form ...

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

Fashion designers from across North America are bringing inspiration from their Indigenous heritage, culture and everyday lives to three days of runway modeling starting Friday in a leading creative ...

Spanish settlers knocked down all but the foundations of the Temple of the Sun, then built a church atop the Inca walls. Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons It’s long been rumored ...

A team of archaeologists has discovered an ancient labyrinthine system of tunnels hidden beneath the Peruvian city of Cusco, a former Inca stronghold nestled in the Andes mountains. The tunnel ...

Elsewhere, perfectly proportioned wingback chairs shipped from her aunt’s home in England, elegant bergère chairs originating from France in the 18th century – modernised with coral fabric and Inca ...

“In tribal philosophy, red represents blood and sacrifice, and white symbolises peace.” Clothing—indigenous textiles, weaves, colours, patterns, and motifs—are all inseparably linked to ...

More than 500 years ago, an Incan girl was killed as part of a sacrificial ritual at a mountain summit in Peru. Her frozen mummified remains were discovered in 1995 by archaeologists, who named ...

Reinhard inspected it. He found a withered human face poking through the rags. Reinhard had discovered an Incan teenager, who would come to be known as Juanita, or the Maiden of Ampato ...

The possible living face of Peru's most famous mummy, a teenage Inca girl sacrificed in a ritual more than 500 years ago atop the Andes, was unveiled Tuesday. The silicone-made bust portrays a ...

(Shutterstock) The earliest reasons for counting people, as tribal settlements grew into ... income, expenditure patterns and land use. The word “census” itself has its roots in the Latin ...