While there are no records to attest to how the Inca mastered this art, perhaps some conclusions can be drawn from the practices that persist to the present day: children in the Andean highlands ...

An Inca official displays a khipu, or string-recording device, in this depiction from a Colonial-era chronicle of Andean history.(Art Resource) If, in fact, the thousands of holes at the site were ...

The great plaza of Cusco was the political center of the Inca Empire. The Saphy River divided it into two sacred spaces, with the northeast area used for ceremonies. ART: JON FOSTER. JEFF OSBORN ...

A CHILLING discovery has been made in a 700-year-old mass grave that contains the bodies of 76 sacrificed children. The ...

Melanie Prapopoulos, founder and director of North Miami’s The CAMP Gallery, says she has been thinking about the Aristophanes play, “Lysistrata” — the imagined sex strike by Athenian and Spartan ...

Visitors admire a replica of a gold mask from Sanxingdui at an ongoing exhibition at the Inka Museum in Cuzco, Peru. The ...

An analysis of previous sacrifices at the same site suggests the victims were conquered people brought to work on the land.

Meanwhile, art history buffs head to the Chilean Museum ... Highlights include pieces from the Inca and Aztec empires and Chinchorro mummies, a funerary technique that's 2,000 years older than ...

The exhibition can serve as a window into China's cultural heritage for the people of Cuzco, and can deepen exchanges and mutual understanding between China and Peru, said Mohenir Julinho Zapata, the ...

Peru aims to showcase its renowned cuisine at the APEC Forum by serving world leaders dishes like ceviche, quinoa, and ...

The Spondylus shells were prized by the Chimu as they were used in art and thought to have the power to influence supernatural forces. The Chimu were eventually conquered by the Inca in the 15th ...