A newly discovered temple in the Bolivian Andes once served as ceremonial crossroads where llama caravans carrying ...

The Capacocha ritual was one of the most significant religious ceremonies in the Inca Empire. It involved sacrificing children and young women to deities and sacred places at the summits of ...

This Inca girl was frozen for 500 years. ... “No European colonist ever saw the ceremony,” she explains. (Learn what may have made the ancient Chimu society sacrifice its own children.) ...

This new understanding challenges everything that was known about Capacocha, one of the most important ceremonies of the Tawantinsuyu, or Inca Empire, in which children and adolescents were offered as ...

Archeologists discover oldest non-royal mummy ever in Egypt 01:31. The possible living face of Peru's most famous mummy, a teenage Inca girl sacrificed in a ritual more than 500 years ago atop the ...

Researchers recreated the face of an Inca girl who was believed to have been sacrificed atop a volcano more than 500 years ago. The Inca Ice Maiden is Peru's most famous mummy, discovered in 1995 ...

Sacrificed ‘frozen’ Inca child in Chile did not die peacefully as previously thought, study finds. Researchers previously thought boy was put to sleep before he was placed in icy tomb ...

Preceding the Inca, This Andean 'Stonehenge' Was a Space for Ceremony and Ritual Ritual circles — like the ancient stone plaza found in Peru's Cajamarca Valley — date back as far as 5,000 years ago.

Andean people of the past looked at these strings as a record of the climate, and they studied them to understand patterns.

It is believed the Children of Llullaillaco, as they have come to be known, were sacrificed during a ceremony thanking the Inca gods for the annual corn harvest. 'Great mistake' The mummy of la ...

The possible living face of Peru’s most famous mummy, a teenage Inca girl sacrificed in a ritual more than 500 years ago atop the Andes, was unveiled by a team of Polish and Peruvian scientists.