Utility workers in Lima, Peru, uncovered a 1,000-year-old pre-Inca mummy during excavation work for a gas pipeline.

A new study reveals beer was key to the Wari empire's 500-year reign in ancient Peru—brewed chicha kept political peace with ...

When it comes to social influence, knowing how people are connected matters more than simply knowing lots of people, found ...

The Inca Empire managed vast territories without a written alphabet, relying instead on a mysterious system of knotted strings known as the khipu. Once dismissed as simple accounting tools, new ...

Most of them were males—possibly because males are more dominant in the sulfur-crested cockatoo social hierarchy, or because males are larger and therefore more physically able to pull open the ...

Brazil's federal police accused former president Jair Bolsonaro and 35 others of involvement in a sprawling scheme that used the country's intelligence agency to spy on members of the judiciary, ...

We have become more accepting because people have demanded it, protested for it, and used the bully pulpit of social media to shame beauty’s gatekeepers into opening the doors wider. Technology ...

Quito, the capital of Ecuador, was founded in the 16th century on the ruins of an Inca city and stands at an altitude of ... for the time being unity and harmony in its urban structure despite ...

Though eventually absorbed by the expanding Inca Empire in the late 15th century, the Chachapoya maintained distinct social and architectural traditions ... digitally recording the structure, and ...

Across evolutionary history, being near the top of the social hierarchy has been linked to greater chances of survival and reproduction. Because of this, social evolution shaped animals ...