A visit to the former Inca Empire reveals epic feats of construction and engineering that have withstood the test of time, ...

Is it possible that melting glaciers or other natural weather forces played a part in the material handling aspects of building some of the Inca structures, and/or aided the Incas with water and ...

Boys and girls were selected, often as part of an annual tribute to the Inca state. Chosen children typically came from noble ...

Cusco Ministry of Culture An intoxicated man in Cusco, Peru, has defaced a historic Inca artifact known as the 12-angled stone. The carved rock is a piece of a wall that once surrounded a historic ...

According to archaeologist Juan Schobinger, "Inca sacrifices often involved the ... and often stones for the camp structures from the villages below) would be coralled, and permanent stone ...

When the Spanish conquered the city in the 16th century, the urban structure of the Inca imperial city of Cuzco was preserved and temples, monasteries and manor houses were built over the Inca city.

By Paarth Mathur ✐ While Europe's 19th-century surgeons struggled with a 50% survival rate for skull surgeries, the ancient ...