Amazing preserved mummies, lost cities, and incredible mountaintop discovery offer startling, new revelations about the glorious rise--and cataclysmic fall--of the extraordinary Inca civilization.
The range of ceramics documented include puccu plates, bowls, and the iconic Inca aryballos—a spherical ... feed and water mummies of ancestors and deities, make ritual toasts, etc.
Woolly mammoths, giant sloths and saber-toothed cats were a fact of life for early humans. But today’s researchers can only hope to find fossils that will shed more light on the existence of ...
It brings together a sacrificial Incan mummy, Winston Churchill’s secret plans for unusual aircraft carriers, strange bones that shook Victorian beliefs about the world and a macabre journey into the ...
A mummified Ice Age cub from Siberia is the first known mummy of a saber-toothed cat, and its discovery is generating ripples of excitement among paleontologists. The mummy’s exceptional ...
Today, archaeologists are learning more about Machu Picchu. They think it was a royal and spiritual place. This makes it key to understanding the Inca civilization. Even though its original name might ...