In a new study published in Science Advances, researchers at Northwestern Medicine discovered that the brain regions used for ...

In 1780, as the once-great Inca empire’s Indigenous peoples were forced to labor for the Spanish crown, leader Túpac Amaru II ...

This article, written by Rachel Pope, Reader in European Prehistory at our Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, was originally published in The Conversation: A scientific study with ...

Archeologists have confirmed the existence of ancient tunnels which run under the famous city of Cusco in Peru. Cusco which is a UNESCO world heritage site is formerly the capital of the Inca empire.

According to the Association of Archaeologists of Peru, the “chincana” - meaning labyrinth in Quechua- connect the city’s Temple of the Sun to the ancient ... structure of the Inca imperial ...

The dug-out passages may follow the exact path of the Inca capital’s aboveground roads ... the capital of the ancient Incan empire. Now, thanks to archival texts and ground-penetrating radar ...

The researchers found more than a kilometre of the network of streets, thought to have been built by the Incas. According to ... s Temple of the Sun to the ancient Sacsayhuaman fortress.

Female family ties were at the heart of social networks in Celtic society ... An examination of ancient DNA recovered from 57 graves in Dorset in southwest England shows that two-thirds of the ...

An examination of ancient DNA recovered from 57 graves in ... suggest that women stayed in the same circles throughout life – maintaining social networks and likely inheriting or managing ...

and three additional ancient points of interest, Sacsayhuamán, Muyumarca, and Calispuquio. The discovery of the hidden Inca tunnel network was in the making since 1600 AD The first clue about the ...

It's adding to that pile of evidence that women were able to wield quite a lot of social and political influence ... communities by examining the ancient DNA of groups that were buried together ...