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 ...

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, ...

Archaeologists have unearthed thousands of Inca mummies buried in dusty graves beneath a windblown Peruvian shantytown, offering an unprecedented look at the life and culture of South America's ...