The last Sapa Inca to ascend the throne before Spanish contact, Huayna Capac, grandson of famed emperor Pachacuti, survived ...

dating back to 1250 A.D. The researchers examined around 100 mummies from the civilisation that flourished before the Inca ...

Discover startling new revelations about this extraordinary civilization. Inca Mummies: Secrets of a Lost World transports you to remote Peruvian mountaintops with archaeologists as they explore a ...

The researchers examined around 100 mummies from coastal Peru’s Chancay culture – a civilization that flourished before the Inca empire and the arrival of Europeans. All the individuals had ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — For more than 5,000 years, humans have adorned themselves with tattoos. In a new study, researchers used ...

Highly detailed tattoos on Peruvian mummies were made with “special ... later absorbed by the Inca Empire”, researchers note in a study published in the journal PNAS on Monday.

Highly detailed tattoos on Peruvian mummies were made with “special effort” around 1,200 years ago ... “were a small state that could mass produce goods and achieved trade relations with regional ...

The researchers examined around 100 mummies from coastal Peru’s Chancay culture – a civilization that flourished before the Inca empire and the arrival of Europeans. All the individuals had ...