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An intact bronze cannonball unearthed near the Alamo was likely used in the 1836 battle between Mexico and the Republic of ...

On a barren mountain ridge in the Pisco Valley of Peru, a strange pattern of depressions stretches across the landscape. From ...

King Felipe VI of Spain acknowledged on Monday that during the Spanish conquest and colonization of America, “there were ...

King Felipe appears to have helped thaw frosty relations with Mexico while reviving a fierce debate over events 500 years ago ...

Frozen high in the Andes for more than five centuries, several Inca child mummies are still telling their story. New CT scans are giving researchers a closer look at their health and the way their ...

Centuries before the Inca emerged, Amazonian parrots were carried alive across the Andes and raised in captivity on Peru's coast for their vibrant feathers.

The Incas built over 40 thousand km of roads at the top of the most impervious Andean mountains, despite an extremely harsh climate, landslides, earthquakes and construction metho ...

This portrait from the Brooklyn Museum illustrates the legendary founder of the Inca dynasty as part of a series of fourteen kings. Credit: Brooklyn Museum / Wikimedia Commons One of history’s most ...

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Inca Emperor Atahualpa, 18th-century painting by the Cuzco School. Credit: Online Collection of Brooklyn Museum / Public Domain Archaeologists are gaining new insight into one of the Inca Empire’s ...