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

New research suggests the Band of Holes in southern Peru may have been first a market and later an Inca accounting device.

The Peruvian Andes have long concealed a mystery: a 1.5-kilometer stretch of 5,200 precisely carved holes etched into the ...

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

Discovering a mysterious hole in your carefully manicured lawn or thriving garden can be frustrating. Is it a sign of a minor ...

New research suggests that the holes were the site of an ancient marketplace, and Inca rulers may have used them as a ...

"Once you consider magnetic fields, you can actually explain the origins of this unique event." Scientists have gotten to the ...