A study found the first archeological evidence that the Incas used ayahuasca. A new analysis found traces of the drug in the hair and toes of mummified children sacrificed in rituals. It may have been ...

Workers expanding gas lines accidentally dug up eight mummies in Lima, Peru. The mummies are older than Incan culture and were likely buried hundreds of years ago. Over years of expanding gas lines, ...

The Wari, an ancestor culture to the Incas that flourished throughout the Andean Highlands, expanded their reign largely through trade and semiautonomous colonies, rather than through the iron fist of ...

The 14,000-foot-high plain of the Andes, where the Inca civilization flourished five centuries ago, is as barren a land as the world possesses. With its packs of llamas running across the puna, ...

Some archaeologists describe Peru’s capital as an onion with many layers of history, others consider it a box of surprises. That's what some gas line workers got when their digging uncovered eight pre ...

For years, historians believed that only trained Inca specialists were responsible for handling the records of emperors. Those records weren’t kept on paper. They were made with cords and knots called ...