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 ...

At over 6,000 metres, Mt Ampato is one of the highest mountains in Peru, and a place were the Inca used in one of their most dramatic and powerful religious ceremonies: human sacrifice.

Melissa Scott Murphy is a bioarcheologist at Bryn Mawr College who has worked in Peru, Israel, and France. She appears in "The Great Inca Rebellion" as one of the experts working on the Puruchuco ...