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Two 500-year-old freeze-dried potatoes show how the Inca Empire fed people across Peru
Long before modern refrigeration, the ancient Inca Empire was preserving food for years and moving it across vast distances. Archaeologists have now uncovered rare evidence of that system in Peru. Two ...
Rising from obscurity to the heights of power, a succession of Andean rulers subdued kingdoms, sculpted mountains, and forged ...
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Civil war, smallpox, and conquistadors: Inside the dramatic fall of the Inca Empire
The Inca Empire rose around 1200 C.E., and over the next 300 years, its leaders continually expanded its bounds. By the 16th ...
ANTH copy 39088019656784 gift from Paul R. Julian. Introduction -- Discovering the Incas and their predecessors -- Native and Spanish sources -- Explorers and the first archaeologists -- 20th-century ...
Archaeologists in Bolivia have recovered a fully intact underwater Inca offering containing a miniature llama figurine and a gold bracelet. The offering, dropped into Lake Titicaca some 500 years ago, ...
New DNA analysis reveals that people from as far as Amazonia once lived and worked in the Inca royal estate. By Laura Baisas Published Jul 26, 2023 2:00 PM EDT Add Popular Science (opens in a new tab) ...
Roughly a century before the Inca empire came to power in A.D. 1400, blasts of human-produced thunder may have rumbled off a ridge high in the Andes Mountains. New evidence indicates that people who ...
This article is part of our Summer reads series. Visit the full collection for book lists, guest essays and more seasonal distractions. SPAIN’S CONQUEST of the Inca empire in the 16th century was ...
The idol of Pachacamac was already 700 years old when Spanish conquistadors arrived in Peru, according to radiocarbon dating of the wood. People journeyed from all over the Andes to consult the statue ...
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