Sacsayhuamán is a colossal Inca citadel located on the northern outskirts of Cusco, the historic capital of the Inca Empire ...

The Elephanta Caves are sculpted caves on Elephanta Island and mainly represent Hindu rock-cut architecture that dates back to between the 5th and 8th centuries CE. Visitors will spot some large ...

A hillside in Peru covered by more than 5000 aligned holes may have been a giant Inca accounting device – a spreadsheet, but on a monumental scale. Tracing across the slopes of Monte Sierpe (Serpent ...

The Peruvian town of Huaytará is home to a 15th-century Inca building that’s unusually simple for the civilization, which is known for its intricate architecture, like the structures seen across Machu ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

In this video, we showcase the power of a 60,000 psi waterjet cutter as it shapes a large rock. This water cutting technique, similar to laser cutting, demonstrates extreme erosion akin to the ...

Inca bureaucrats recorded all the goings-on in their bustling empire using knotted cords called khipu, where the position and order of the knots represented numbers. They relied on the khipu system to ...

The knotted, intricately braided string was like no other anthropologist Sabine Hyland had ever seen. Called a khipu, such devices were typically made and used by Inca elite to record astronomical ...

A new study challenges widespread notions about khipus, intricate cord and knot information-recording systems, based on Spanish colonial-era sources. Reading time 2 minutes The Inca were a ...

A lot of Hulk Hogan tributes have dropped the leg over the last day or so, but none have hit me harder than what The Rock posted this morning. The biggest movie star in the world just posted a video ...

Stranger Things has released a trailer for its long-awaited season 5, and once again, the Netflix sci-fi series has featured a song from one of classic rock's biggest bands. Set in 1987, the show's ...