In the extensive subterranean tomb of several elite members of Peru’s Chimú culture, archaeologist Matthew Helmer of the University of East Anglia has found two remarkable wooden sculptures ...

The great plaza of Cusco was the political center of the Inca Empire. The Saphy River divided it into two sacred spaces, with the northeast area used for ceremonies. ART: JON FOSTER. JEFF OSBORN ...

While there are no records to attest to how the Inca mastered this art, perhaps some conclusions can be drawn from the practices that persist to the present day: children in the Andean highlands ...

Most Inca mummies were arranged in the familiar ... in a cocoon of fine textiles and surrounded by gold and silver statues, bags of corn, and other offerings. Reinhard led another expedition ...

statues and figurines; votive offerings that depict everyday coca-chewing; and intricately decorated pouches to carry leaves. Statue of an Inca porter, holding a coca leaf container in his right ...

Simon Pollock, aka @londonsuburbia, leads us to some of his favourite former factories — starting with a clutch from ...

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sculptures and textiles from Mesoamerica, the Amazon, the Caribbean and Central and Southern Andes. Highlights include pieces from the Inca and Aztec empires and Chinchorro mummies, a funerary ...

Researchers unexpectedly found traces of cocaine in the mummified brain tissue of 17th-century people buried in a crypt in ...