Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, Bolivia, Egypt, Hawaii, Easter Island and other exotic places. With special ...

Parrots are vibrant, charismatic, and fascinating creatures. They have become popular pets, but they are a huge responsibility. A recent survey showed that bird ownership among Gen Z (people born in ...

For centuries, tales of secret tunnels beneath the ancient Inca capital of Cusco were considered little more than legends. Today, archaeology is beginning to substantiate these claims in the ruins ...

Archaeologists confirmed the location of Alexandria on the Tigris, a lost city founded by Alexander the Great in Iraq that ...

New analysis of ancient parrot DNA has revealed that vibrant Amazonian parrots were transported alive across the Andes to coastal Peru centuries before the Inca Empire, highlighting a sophisticated ...

Located on the southern coast of Peru, Chincha was a large civilization and kingdom that flourished between 1000 and 1400 AD and was annexed by the Inca Empire around the 15th century. A study ...

The Incas were known to engage in a sacrificial ritual involving children to appease their gods. Archaeologists have found and analyzed the remains of these human sacrifices, although not all of them ...

Around 500 years ago, four young girls in South America were bashed in the head and sacrificed in a gruesome Inca ritual. Researchers have conducted CT scans of their mummified remains, previously ...

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The pre-Inca Chincha Kingdom (circa 1000-1400 CE), along Peru’s southern coast, was one of the most wealthy and influential of its time before falling to the Inca and Spanish empires. Scientists have ...

Ceremonial digging stick or paddle from coastal Peru showing seabirds and possible maize sprouting from abstracted fish and stepped-terrace motifs, The Met Museum 1979.206.1025. New archaeological ...