Peru's Ministry of Culture has confirmed a groundbreaking discovery that rewrites the history of ancient astronomy in the Americas. Archaeologists working at the Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex ...

From a distance, a stepped stone silhouette on Peru’s coast can look uncannily like something lifted from the Nile. The resemblance is striking enough that visitors often reach for Egyptian ...

Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, Bolivia, Egypt, Hawaii, Easter Island and other exotic places. With special ...

Andina News Agency reports that archaeologist Ivan Ghezzi Solis and his colleagues have discovered traces of older structures ...

For years, researchers have questioned who created the “band of holes” site in Peru. A new study suggests it was an ancient marketplace.

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

Extend your itinerary beyond Peru’s classic sights to discover ancient temples, mermaid-cursed waterfalls and some of the ...

In a recent study, Dr. Weronika Tomczyk and her colleagues conducted a zooarchaeological and isotopic study of ancient Andean ...

Seeing the north coast of Peru for the first time, you would be hard-pressed to believe it’s one of the driest deserts in the world. Parts of the region receive less than an inch of rain in an entire ...

Archaeologists have announced the discovery of 5,000-year-old remains apparently belonging to a high-society woman from an ancient Peruvian civilization. The tomb was found in Aspero, an area in the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Ari Caramanica, Vanderbilt University (THE CONVERSATION) Seeing the north coast of ...