Spirits, sacrifice and the sun

Pachacuti, the ninth Inca monarch, expanded the empire’s boundaries and forged a cohesive, tightly governed state

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Well, it certainly looks like a game. But is it? The archaeological object illustrated here is of a type found frequently in the Central Andes, homeland of the Inca Empire from about 1400 to 1553. Spe

Shamanism across many cultures

On 2 January 1893, the black American abolitionist and reformer Frederick Douglass delivered a lecture on Haiti to an audience in Chicago. It was widely alleged, he reflected, that the Caribbean repub

What the West owes to the ancient world