Introduction / Serge Lemaitre -- Camelid wools: an unsuspected diversity / Elise Dufour and Nicolas Goepfert -- Fibres and dye used in textiles from the Andes / Beatriz Devia Castillo -- Feathers and ...

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A 2,000-year-old, pre-Inca textile, thought to be an ancient calendar, has been repatriated from Sweden to its home in Peru. It is one of the first treasures, part of a bigger collection, that will be ...

The Inca Empire in Peru was an expansive and complex civilization that thrived in the pre-Columbian era between about 1400 and 1530. At the time of the Spanish conquistador’s arrival (Pizarro landed ...

We know cave drawings told stories and were a means of communications. But what about macrame? A researcher at St. Andrews University in Scotland says that’s exactly how Inca’s transmitted letters. In ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Inca tunic, 1500-1552. Camelid fibers and dyes. Credit: Yale University Art Gallery The fabric ...

On our descent from the summit, archaeology student Walter Diaz took us to a cave that sits in the middle of a rock face at about 16,500 feet. Inside, we found not only human remains, but also the ...

The first frozen high mountain Inca human sacrifice was found atop a peak in Chile in 1954. "La Momia del Cerro El Plomo," the Mummy of El Plomo Peak became its name, and until Juanita, it was ...

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 ...