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Incan ‘Ice Maiden’ Revealed in Hyperrealistic Facial Reconstruction A new facial approximation brings to life an Incan girl who was killed 500 years ago as part of a sacrificial ritual ...
Three Incan children who were sacrificed 500 years ago were regularly given drugs and alcohol in their final months to make them more compliant in the ritual that ultimately killed them, new ...
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 ...
A new facial approximation brings to life an Incan girl who was killed 500 years ago as part of a sacrificial ritual.
An Incan child who was sacrificed 500 years ago is revealing new details about the expansion and history of Native Americans.
Incan healers became highly adept at skull surgery techniques that developed over thousands of years in ancient Peru.
Tombs containing the remains of two children thought to have belonged to the Incan societal elite have been discovered by a group of experts in northern Peru in the boundaries of a 500-year-old ...
The operations in the ancient Incan world were more successful than those during the American Civil War.
During early encounters with the Inca Empire, Spanish conquistadors reported the locals periodically sacrificed various animal species in large numbers in modern-day Peru.
Early Spanish reports suggest thousands of guinea pigs were sacrificed—but this is the first time archaeological evidence of the practice has been found.
A 500-year-old frozen Incan mummy suffered from a bacterial lung infection at the time of its death, as revealed by a novel proteomics method that shows evidence of an active pathogenic infection ...
Today, there is just one Incan grass bridge left, the keshwa chaca, a sagging 90-foot span that stretches between two sides of a steep gorge, near Huinchiri, Peru.