In 1780, as the once-great Inca empire’s Indigenous peoples were forced to labor for the Spanish crown, leader Túpac Amaru II ...

The idea that the pre-Columbian Amazon was pristine has taken a nose-dive in recent years. Scientists have found several ...

An interesting archeological discovery was made on a hill west of Kaerby on Denmark's Fynia Island. What appeared to be a plain mound of stones was an ancient ...

The nonprofit World Monuments Fund (WMF) has announced its 2025 World Monuments Watch list. Read on for the full list. Teaser ...

The Qhapaq Ñan, often called the Andean Road System, is an impressive pre-Hispanic network of ancient roads that once converged on the Inca capital ... can spur cultural, social, and economic ...

The culture was characterized by sophisticated urban developments, as well as a complex social hierarchy dominated ... father who sacrificed a daughter in Inca times, but in a different context ...

When the Spanish conquered the city in the 16th century, the urban structure of the Inca imperial city of Cuzco was preserved and temples, monasteries and manor houses were built over the Inca city.

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin found that mice at the top of the social hierarchy experienced more stress ...

Music, like everything else, has been stratified and separated by social hierarchy. So the location and the audience were new to the speaker. As the conference curator, I felt such aesthetic ...

Former U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis spoke bluntly in 2013 about the importance of his diplomatic counterparts at the ...