A temple burial discovered in Peru from roughly 3,800 years ago pre-dates the rise of the Incan Empire. Archaeologists found four skeletal remains, all laid facing the mountains, the source of ...

In one letter he wrote: "There are thousands of gold and silver pieces of Inca and pre-Inca handicraft, the most beautiful goldsmith works you are not able to imagine." He detailed life-size human ...

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

Peabody Museum has acquired a real, pre-Incan mummy which has rapidly disintegrated during the last week into piles of bones and blood-stained garments after being unwrapped by students in ...

But they got it wrong. Thousands of years earlier the pre-Incas were able to plot its location almost as accurately as modern day GPS. How did they do it? In this film, we explore how indigenous ...

Archaeologists at a funerary structure east of Lima have filmed this footage of a mummy, which could be up to 1,200 years old. Watch this video to see the underground structure where the mummy was ...