Learn about the Inca Empire’s advanced society, architecture, and culture through archaeological research across South America.
A recent study casts a refreshing perspective on what appears to be a very early rite of passage in ancient ...
A newly analyzed Andean trophy head from southern Peru is providing new insight into how ancient societies viewed individuals with ...
Researchers at the Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex in Peru have discovered an ancient structure that existed before what was considered to ...
Archaeologists working in Peru have uncovered fresh evidence of how the oldest known civilization in the Americas confronted a severe ...
Excavations at the ancient Maya city of Naachtun, in northern Guatemala, have yielded a one-of-a-kind artifact: a patolli gameboard that, ...
In the southern Peruvian Andes, a long band of thousands of carefully carved holes at a high altitude has perplexed ...
Until recently, Aguada Fénix had lain hidden beneath the fields and forests of southeastern Mexico for millennia. The vast earthen ...
High above the southern edge of the Teotihuacan Valley (Mexico) rises Cerro Patlachique — a peak now shown to have ...
A recent study has decoded how Maya astronomers forecasted solar eclipses with astonishing accuracy more than a thousand years ago, ...
Archaeologists have identified Ix Ch’ak Ch’een as one of the rulers of the ancient Maya city of Cobá, and uncovered ...
