Incan qeros from the National Museum of the American Indian. The white pigment “often appears yellowish over time,” says Emily Kaplan. National Museum of the American Indian In 1908, at a lab in ...

The discovery of a vast Inca tunnel system beneath the historic heart of Cusco has turned a whispered legend into mapped stone. After centuries in which locals spoke of a hidden labyrinth running from ...

Although the ancient Inca are renowned for their highly organized society and extraordinary skill in working with gold, stone and pottery, few are familiar with the khipu—an elaborate system of ...

Writing Inca History : The Colonial Era / Joanne Pillsbury -- Andean Statecraft before the Incas / Jerry D. Moore -- The Spread of Inca Power in the Cuzco Region / R. Alan Covey -- Cuzco : Development ...

In a breakthrough discovery, archaeologists have unearthed a hidden labyrinth beneath the historic city of Cusco, Peru, confirming centuries-old rumors of a labyrinth stretching beneath the ancient ...

The 500-year-old skull, found in a long-forgotten Inca cemetery outside Lima, Peru, had two round holes just across from each other. Nearby was a plug of bone, recovered intact, that carried the ...

Previous research has largely drawn on texts created by Spanish colonizers. Pedro Szekely via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 2.0 Machu Picchu, the breathtaking mountainside settlement in southern ...

1. Genre and Context in Inca Historical Narratives -- 2. Structuring Remembered History -- 3. Making History Visible -- 4. Huayna Capac's History -- 5. Huayna Capac's Royal Estate -- 6. The ...