The remains of seven sacrificed children have been unearthed in an Inca building in Peru’s Cuzco Valley. Analysis of isotopes in their teeth indicates that at least two of the children came from distant parts of the Inca realm. “It was surprising that the figurines and other artifacts found with children buried at this low-altitude […]

A seventeenth-century letter retrieved from a crumbled church in northern Peru records a number system from an extinct language, according to Jeffrey Quilter of Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. “I think a lot of people don’t realize how many languages were spoken in pre-contact times,” he said. Construction work in Albania reportedly […]