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Inca underground labyrinth found, confirming a centuries-old rumor

The discovery of a vast Inca tunnel system beneath the historic heart of Cusco has turned a whispered legend into mapped ...
The Washington Post

Inca Skull Rewrites History of Conquest

The 500-year-old skull, found in a long-forgotten Inca cemetery outside Lima, Peru, had two round holes just across from each other. Nearby was a plug of bone, recovered intact, that carried the ...
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Unraveling the Secrets of the Inca Empire

The heaps of khipus emerged from garbage bags in the back of the tiny, one-room museum—clumps of tangled ropes the size of beach balls. Sabine Hyland smiled as she gazed down at them and said, “Qué ...
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Lords of Cuzco a history and description of the Inca people in their final days With drawings from Huaman Poma

pt. 1. The lords described. The hummingbird ; The hummingbird's people ; Cuzcoquiti ; Down the valley to Huanacauri ; Huanacauri to Muina ; The three roots of the Inca stock ; The Incas as a caste ; ...
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The illustrated encyclopedia of the Incas : the history, legends, myths and culture of the ancient native peoples of the Andes, with over 500 photographs, maps, artworks and ...

Discovering the Incas and their past -- PART ONE: HISTORY: Empire of the sun -- The land -- Sacred landscapes, sacred skies -- Early settlers to empire builders -- Themes and peoples -- Power and ...
Smithsonian Magazine

How the Inca Discovered a Prized Pigment

Incan qeros from the National Museum of the American Indian. The white pigment “often appears yellowish over time,” says Emily Kaplan. National Museum of the American Indian In 1908, at a lab in ...