A single lock of 500-year-old hair could upend what researchers have long thought about class and literacy in the Inca Empire, according to a new study. Spanning across western South America, the Inca ...

The remains of eleven individuals, estimated to be around 800 years old, were found buried with necklaces, earrings and bracelets, according to lead archaeologist Sinthya Cueva. Archaeologists in Peru ...

Researchers at the UC Santa Cruz Paleogenomics Lab helped conduct the first investigation of genomic diversity among people buried at Machu Picchu, the renowned 15th century Inca palace in southern ...

The knotted, intricately braided string was like no other anthropologist Sabine Hyland had ever seen. Called a khipu, such devices were typically made and used by Inca elite to record astronomical ...

SANTA CRUZ — A recently published study, co-authored by UC Santa Cruz Anthropology Professor Lars Fehren-Schmitz, analyzing the 500 year-old DNA of those buried near Peru’s iconic Incan citadel Machu ...

Ancient remains of a wealthy pre-Inca society, possibly from the ruling class, were discovered in Peru. The eleven individuals were buried with luxurious jewellery, hinting at a violent end. Unearthed ...

A team of researchers from Poland, the U.S. and Peru has found evidence that suggests Inca children selected for sacrifice were given drugs to keep them calm prior to their deaths. In their paper ...

Chronicler Inca Garcilaso de la Vega - whose name is less well-known in China than in some other parts of the world as compared to Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes and English playwright William ...

The khipu examined in the study, found to be made with a primary cord of human hair Hyland, School of Divinity, University of St Andrews via Science Advances A single lock of 500-year-old hair could ...