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A portrait by New Zealand artist Gottfried Lindauer (1839 - 1926 CE) of Te Rangi Pikinga. She belonged to the Ngāti Apa people of Whanganui (New Zealand) and was captured by Te Rangihaeata at Turakina...

For the Incas, as with many other ancient cultures, religion was inseparable from politics, history, and society in general. All facets of community life were closely connected to religious beliefs, from marriages to agriculture...

Viracocha was the supreme god of the Incas. He is also known as Huiracocha, Wiraqoca and Wiro Qocha. Considered the creator god he was the father of all other Inca gods and it was he who formed the earth, heavens, sun, moon and all...

Polynesian navigation of the Pacific Ocean and its settlement began thousands of years ago. The inhabitants of the Pacific islands had been voyaging across vast expanses of ocean water...

On 1 November 2015 CE, at the annual dinner hosted by the British Guild of Travel Writers at the Savoy Hotel in London, it was announced that the Tucume Museum in northern Peru had won the prestigious award...

A 1951 photograph of Thor Herydahl (1914-2002), leader of the 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition when he and five others crossed the Pacific Ocean from Peru to Polynesia on a balsa-wood raft. Library of Congress.

Get to know the story of David Walker, an abolitionist whose antislavery pamphlet made him an enemy of the US government. – In 1830, David Walker sewed a pamphlet into the lining of a coat. The...

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Dig into the Greek myth of Achilles, and follow the infamous warrior during the Trojan War and see what leads to his downfall. – Born to a sea nymph and a king, and trained by the legendary...

Trace the rise and fall of the ancient Celts, a group of hundreds of independent warrior tribes defeated by the Roman Empire. — One summer evening in 335 BCE, Alexander the Great was resting by the Danube...