A new study reveals that the capacocha ritual of child sacrifice, practiced by the Incas, involved ceremonial use of ceramic ...

In the film, Paddington discovers a knotted string bracelet said to contain an ancient secret. Far from being ropy Holywood nonsense, this hidden language really did exist.

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

For more than a millennium, many Andean peoples used an object called a "khipu" (also spelled "quipu" and pronounced "key-poo ...

The Incas used mysterious stringy objects called ‘khipus’ to record data. We just got a step closer to understanding them.

Here, we explore six notable civilizations that have collapsed, shedding light on some of the causes behind their demise and ...

Get your Indiana Jones-style fedora ready for a modern-day armchair expedition of places rediscovered after centuries—and ...

Augustus, though careful to preserve the appearance of republican institutions, held ultimate authority, effectively making ...

The fall of Alabama began last season -- not in Saturday's loss to Tennessee. But for an unthinkable fourth-and-31 conversion on the last play of the Auburn game, Alabama wouldn’t have made ...

Thousands of years ago, in the mountains of Peru, Chile, and Bolivia, the people of the Inca empire ate a diet rich in plants like peppers, squash, corn, and avocados. But their mother grain or ...

Prediction: As one of Fall TV’s buzzier new shows we have high hopes for this newbie’s renewal. High Potential has arrived with a modest start, the show’s 2.28% viewership increase to 3.675 ...