Inca and Spanish eras, independence in 1822, oil, the US dollar, gang violence and what the 29 November 2026 vote decides.
A new Antiquity study of eight Inca mummies finds the substances given to sacrificed children varied by site, from coca and corn beer to a psychoactive plant.
Five centuries after children were sacrificed on volcanic peaks in the Andes, chemical clues preserved in their hair and ...
Holy Roman Emperor Charles V was the most powerful man in Europe in the early 16th century, running a territory that sprawled across the continent and beyond, to the New World.
From the ritual, the Inca believed the children would become the intermediary between them and the gods—and these substances may have been an "offering" to ease their journey.
The sacrifice of children and young girls to the gods was one of the most sacred rituals in the former Inca Empire. New ...
In the final month of her life, an eight-year-old girl in the Inca Empire appears to have consumed alcohol while chewing coca ...
Children in the Inca Empire were drugged with coca leaves, corn beer and poisonous plants before they were sacrificed, ...
New toxicology tests of Incan mummies found the kids were given not just cocaine, but alcohol and chemicals found in ...
During the reign of the Inca Empire, which spanned a large territory in western South America from the 13th to the 16th centuries, children and young women were regularly sacrificed to important gods ...
Women and children may have been plied with cocaine, alcohol and psychoactive drugs before they were brutally sacrificed by the Incas. Analysis of 500-year-old mummies found in the mountains of South ...
Researchers tested hair and nails from eight frozen Inca mummies and found traces of coca, alcohol and, in one girl, a compound tied to ayahuasca. Dagmara Socha of the University of Warsaw led the ...
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