For more than a millennium, many Andean peoples used an object called a "khipu" (also spelled ... they were especially ...

This small gold model of a llama is a fitting offering for an Inca mountain god. The Incas revered gold as the sweat of the sun and believed that it represented the sun's regenerative powers.

Huacas were not considered merely objects or places, but more specifically the spirits that inhabited them. Therefore, when ...

But we know from these, and from the objects left behind, that the making of the Inca Empire is one of the most extraordinary achievements in the history of the world. Andean territory is ...

Many of these cultural treasures are objects of veneration, indicating the practice of sun worship among the ancient Shu people. In the Inca Empire, which was one of the largest in pre-Columbian ...

The mummy, known as "Juanita" or the "Inca Ice Maiden", was an Inca girl ... tunic and a headpiece and was surrounded by ceramic objects including bowls and figurines. Studies carried out on ...