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 ...

A mysterious mummy that languished in German collections for more than a century is that of an Incan woman killed by blunt-force trauma to the head, new research reveals. A new analysis shows that the ...

Introduction: Death's Heads: Humanity's Peruvian Ancestors at the Smithsonian -- Part 1. Opening, 1525-1795. Curing Incas: Andean Lifeways and the Pre-Hispanic Imperial Dead -- Embalming Incas: Huayna ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. While re-evaluating a centuries’ old, elongated skull originally ...

SANTIAGO, CHILE—According to a Live Science report, Francisco Garrido and Catalina Morales of Chile’s National Museum of Natural History suggest the conquerors of the expanding Inca Empire may have ...