Ancient Origins

First Known Deliberate Mummification Found in Inca Child Sacrifice

A new bioarchaeological study has identified what researchers describe as the first known case of deliberate mummification applied to a child sacrificed during the Inca capacocha ritual. The finding ...
The Washington Post

Inca Skull Rewrites History of Conquest

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 ...
Courthouse News Service

Peru Recovers Priceless Inca Manuscript Stolen During Occupation

LIMA, Peru (AFP) — Peru unveiled a priceless manuscript containing the memoirs of former Inca leaders that had disappeared during Chile’s occupation of Lima during the 1879-84 Pacific War. The ...
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The Oxford handbook of the Incas / edited by Sonia Alconini and R. Alan Covey

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 ...
Los Angeles Times

Inca Mummies Discovered Under Lima Shantytown

The emergency excavation of a 500-year-old cemetery under a Lima shantytown has produced the largest trove of Inca mummies ever discovered in Peru--a finding that already is changing established views ...
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The illustrated encyclopedia of the Incas : the history, legends, myths and culture of the ancient native peoples of the Andes, with over 500 photographs, maps, artworks and ...

Discovering the Incas and their past -- PART ONE: HISTORY: Empire of the sun -- The land -- Sacred landscapes, sacred skies -- Early settlers to empire builders -- Themes and peoples -- Power and ...