New research suggests the Band of Holes functioned as a barter marketplace before becoming an accounting system for the Inca ...

A series of about 5,200 holes stretching nearly a mile (1.5 kilometers) across the Pisco Valley in the southern Peruvian ...

High in the Peruvian Andes, a ribbon of thousands of hand-dug pits marches across a barren hillside, so regular and extensive ...

New research published in Antiquity reveals the first scientific evidence that Peru’s puzzling “Band of Holes” — once ...

By John Dudley, University Communications and MarketingA century after it first baffled explorers and inspired speculation ...

Having studied the healing plants and peoples of tropical South America for well over four decades, I am often asked, “What ...

The appropriation of ancestral knowledge has a name: biopiracy. In this report, we examine the emblematic case of sacha inchi ...

Discover why some of the world's most remarkable destinations reveal their magic when experienced with patience, perspective, ...

Carved before the Spanish invasion in 1532, the so-called 'Valley of Holes' has long intrigued archaeologists and conspiracy ...