Ingeniería, astronomía y organización social: el sorprendente legado del pueblo que dominó los Andes sin rueda ni hierro La ...

Obsessed with a treasure city, conquistador Francisco Pizarro captured the Inca emperor Atahualpa. To spare his life, the emperor offered up the largest cache of gold the Spanish ever acquired in the ...

Archaeologists Believe They’ve Identified Who Created Thousands of Holes in Peru ...

Un equipo de astrónomos ha identificado una gigantesca superestructura cósmica a la que han ...

The Peruvian town of Huaytará is home to a 15th-century Inca building that’s unusually simple for the civilization, which is known for its intricate architecture, like the structures seen across Machu ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

For more than a millennium, many Andean peoples used an object called a “khipu” (also spelled “quipu” and pronounced “key-poo”) to record and communicate information. Khipus were made with cords or ...

The Inca Empire, flourishing between the 15th and 16th centuries, was a beacon of innovative engineering. Nestled in the Andes, this civilization demonstrated a profound understanding of architecture, ...

Alex Chepstow-Lusty has received funding from NERC, CNRS and the French Institute of Andean Studies. Many tropical glaciers in the Andes are expected to disappear in the next few decades. Their ...

ST. ANDREWS, SCOTLAND—Science reports that recent analysis of an Inca recordkeeping device in the collection of the University of St. Andrews is upending what archaeologists previously thought about ...