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Friday, 21 February 2025, 12:46 (12:46 PM) GMT, day 052 of 2025
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• Amazing Things We’ve Learned From 800 Ancient Skull Surgeries -- National Geographic News (30 June 2016)
  
  
• Untangling an Accounting Tool and an Ancient Incan Mystery -- New York Times (02 January 2016)
  
  
• Deserted Field Systems of the Atacama -- Past Horizons (26 March 2015)
  
  
• Peru's Growing Capital Seeks to Preserve Inca Ruins -- Phys.org (21 March 2015)
  
  
• Peruvian Dig Reveals Sacrificial Mystery -- Phys.org (29 October 2014)
  
  
• Peru's Farmers Fight Climate Change Using Modern and Inca Techniques -- Guardian (20 January 2014)
  
  
• Why the Incas offered up child sacrifices -- Guardian (03 August 2013)
  
  
• Inca Child Sacrifice Victims Were Drugged -- National Geographic News (29 July 2013)
  
  
• Inca mummies: Child sacrifice victims fed drugs and alcohol -- BBC News (29 July 2013)
  
  
• Visit Machu Picchu with Huge 'Zoomable' Image -- LiveScience (27 November 2012)
  
  
• Ancient Tomb Built to Flood—Sheds Light on Peru Water Cult? -- National Geographic News (05 September 2012)
  
  
• Machu Picchu: Facts & History -- LiveScience (31 August 2012)
  
  
• High Flying Technology to Map Peru Ruins -- BBC News (06 August 2012)
  
  
• War Begets State Lake Titicaca, Peru -- Top 10 Discoveries of 2011, Archaeology Volume 65 Number 1, January/February 2012
  
  
• Scientists revive sacred sounds [at pre-Inca Chavin de Huantar, Peru] -- MSNBC (17 February 2012)
  
  

• Ancient Civilizations - Inca Great research site for kids
  
  
• Ancient Inca Civilization -- www.kidskonnect.com
  
  
• Ancient Peru's ritual beer binges -- Americas (07/31/04)
  
  
• Ancient War Revealed in Discovery of Incan Fortresses-- LiveScience (31 May 2011)
  
  • Album: Digging Up Incan Fortresses -- LiveScience (31 May 2011)
    
    
• Atahualpa -- Inca emperor kidnapped by the Spaniards
  
  
• In Pictures: Celebrating Machu Picchu's rediscovery -- BBC News (07 July 2011)
  
  
• Chimu
  
  
  • The pre-Incan Chimu had more gold than the Mochica
    
    
• Clues to Child Sacrifices Found in Inca Building -- Discovery News (23 September 2010)
  
  
• Conquest of Peru, Prescott, 1847 Full text, free to read and search
  
  
• Conquistadors
  
  
• Conquistadors (Cortés, Pizarro, Orellana, Cabeza de Vaca) -- PBS
  
  
• Cuzco (Peru)
  
  
• Dozens of [Chotuna Huaca] Girls Found Sacrificed -- National Geographic News (14 July 2009)
  
  
• Evidence From Dirty Teeth: Ancient Peruvians Ate Well -- ScienceDaily (2008-12-03)
  
  
• Ew! Bad Teeth Reveal What Ancients Ate -- MSNBC (11 December 2008)
  
  
• First Andes civilisation explored -- Science/Nature (12/22/04)
  
  
• Food
  • Coe, Sophie D. America's First Cuisines. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1994.
    
    
  • Evidence From Dirty Teeth: Ancient Peruvians Ate Well -- ScienceDaily (2008-12-03)
    
    
  • Ew! Bad Teeth Reveal What Ancients Ate -- MSNBC (11 December 2008)
    
    
  • History of Peruvian Food in Three (Short) Chapters -- RealWorlds (6 February 2014)
    
    
  • The Humble Potato Is Exalted in the Mountains of Peru -- The New York Times (16 April 2018)
    
    
  • Inca Cuisine -- Wikipedia
    
    
  • Maize May Have Fueled Ancient Andean Civilization [Wari]: Prehistoric skeletons yield evidence that farming of crop led to the rise of an early state society -- Science News (08 July 2009)
    
    
  • Roasted, curried, sweetened … guinea pig meat returns to the plates of Peru -- The Guardian (16 March 2020)
    

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• High in the Andes, Keeping an Incan Mystery Alive -- New York Times (16 August 2010)
  
  
• History of the Incas, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa -- manybooks.net
  
  
• History of the Inca Empire Inca history, society and religion
  
  
• Ice Maiden 'Fattened Up for Sacrifice' -- Telegraph (02 October 2007)
  
  
• "Ice Treasures of the Inca" from the National Geographic site
  
  
• Inca Artifacts, Peru, and Machu Picchu 360 degree movies of inca artifacts and Peruvian landscapes
  
  
• Inca civilization and other ancient civilizations by Genry Joil
  
  
• Inca Cuisine -- Wikipedia
  
  
• Inca Land: Explorations in the Highlands of Peru, Bingham, Hiram (1912-1922) -- The Internet Archive
  
  
  • Inca Land by Hiram Bingham (published 1912–1922 CE)
    
    
• Inca stone cutting techniques: theory on how the Inca walls fit so perfectly
  
  
• Incan Ice Mummies NOVA site based on their series about the 1996 expedition that discovered Incan ice mummies
  
  
• Incan Religion
  
  
• The Incas -- BBC
  
  
• Inca success in Peruvian Andes 'thanks to llama dung' -- BBC News (21 May 2011)
  
  
• Inca Takeovers Not Usually Hostile -- Science News (06 October 2011)
  
  
• Looters Strip Latin America of Archaeological Heritage -- Guardian (21 March 2011)
  
  
• Lords of the Earth -- Maya/Aztec/Inca Center
  
  
• Machu Picchu (Peru; Inca)
  
  
  • intewahutana
    
    
    • "hitching post of the sun"
      
      
    • used to calculate the equinoxes and other things
      
      
• Machu Picchu Is Mini Re-creation of a Mythic Landscape? -- National Geographic News (15 June 2009)
  
  
• Maize May Have Fueled Ancient Andean Civilization [Wari]: Prehistoric skeletons yield evidence that farming of crop led to the rise of an early state society -- Science News (08 July 2009)
  
  
• Manco, the Peruvian Chief, W.H.G. Kingston (1814-1880) -- The Internet Archive

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• Maps
  • Aztec - Inca Map, c. A.D. 1500

• Perfect' mummies found high in Andes -- Science/Nature (04/08/99)
  
  
• Peru Archaeologists Find Pre-Inca Sacrificed Babies [Kolla culture] -- BBC News (20 November 2011)
  
  
• Peru's precious heritage under threat -- Science/Nature (03/25/04)
  
  
• Pre-Incan Female Wari Mummy Unearthed in Peru -- Reuters (26 August 2008)
  
  
• Quechua (Kechua) languages = Inca language
  
  
• Rare Mass Tombs Discovered Near Machu Picchu -- National Geographic News (15 September 2008)
  
  
• Salta Museum (in Spanish)
  
  
• Scientists Uncover Inca Children's Countdown to Sacrifice -- EurekAlert (01 October 2007)
  
  
• Tattooed mummy discovered in Peru -- Americas (05/16/06)
  
  
• Timelines

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• Vicos: A Virtual Tour -- The Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection, Cornell University Library
  
  
• Videos
  
  
  • 1,300-Year-Old Peru Mummy Found -- National Geographic News (27 August 2008)
  • The Sweat of the Sun (52 min., 1975, VC 169)
  • Inca Mummies: Secrets of the Lost World -- snagfilms.com
    
    
• What Was Machu Picchu For? Top Five Theories Explained -- National Geographic News (21 July 2011)
  
  
• Wikipedia
  • Peruvian Ancient Cultures
  • Cultural periods of Peru
  • History of Peru
  • War of the two brothers
  • Inca Garcilaso de la Vega
  • Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala
  • Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire
  • Smallpox Epidemics in the New World
  • Population history of Amerindians
  • Spanish Empire
  • Inca cuisine
  • Tumi
  • Amazonas before the Inca Empire
  • Inca mythology
  • Cusco
    
    
• Yale Agrees to Return Machu Picchu Artifacts to Peru -- Science (14 February 2011)
  

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  Aztec - Inca Map, c. A.D. 1500

Inca Empire, 1197-1572

Inca god Viracocha

Francisco Pizarro

Manco Capac
first king of the Kingdom of Cusco

A detail of a Inca stone work at Cuzco

A red-haired mummy recovered from the Nevado Ampato, Peru, in the mountains near the famous Machu Picchu mountaintop fortress. Dated at circa A.D.1400, this may even have been one of the red-haired Incas that the Spaniards reported seeing

See also

• Indigenous peoples of the Americas
• Population history of American indigenous peoples
• Pre-Columbian art

Macchu Picchu
(Across the Divide Expeditions)

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"La Doncella"

Mummified Inca maiden wows crowds
Friday, 7 September 2007 -- BBC News