SANTA CRUZ — A recently published study, co-authored by UC Santa Cruz Anthropology Professor Lars Fehren-Schmitz, analyzing the 500 year-old DNA of those buried near Peru’s iconic Incan citadel Machu ...

Peruvians from the Huinchiri community in Cusco region are rebuilding a 500-year-old Incan hanging bridge, made using traditional weaving techniques to literally string a crossing together spanning ...

The Inca Empire in South America, one of the most powerful pre-Columbian societies, was known for many innovations — such as the architecture of Machu Picchu, an extensive road network, and a system ...

A cotton and agave fiber Inca khipu is seen at an exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in 2015 in Washington, D.C. (Brendan Smialowski | AFP via Getty Images) The Inca ...

Known in Peru as "Inti Raymi", the ritual takes place inside the Incan complex of Sacsayhuaman, the Plaza de Armas and Koricancha. The festival is a celebration of the sun and opens with the grand ...

The people of the ancient Incan empire kept careful records of their economics, religion, demographics and history. Those records took the form of knotted cords called khipus. Until now, researchers ...

Sabine Hyland receives funding from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, the British Museum and the University of St Andrews Impact Fund. The people of the ...

The existence of a tunnel network under the ancient Peruvian city of Cusco had been rumored for centuries. At times stretching more than a mile, the labyrinth connected the Temple of the Sun to key ...