Several other female skeletons turned up in Puruchuco, indicating that some Inca women fought alongside their men in the Siege of Lima. 3. Head wound Many of the atypical burials recovered from ...

The mummy is that of an Inca woman who was killed in a ritual sacrifice. Researchers from Munich University found out that the woman suffered from Chagas disease so she would have had difficulty ...

By the time of the Inca civilization, which lasted from approximately 1100 to 1500 A.D., the Andean tradition of preserving the dead was still intact. Most Inca mummies were arranged in the ...

But the Inca, whose great era of imperial expansion ran roughly from 1438 to 1533, were also master builders, and Smithsonian-affiliated researchers are now bringing their accomplishments to light.