Fascinating evidence has emerged about historical migration patterns along Peru’s Pacific coast. According to recent data reports, these patterns formed centuries before the rise of the power and ...

The sprawling Nazca Lines have long been cloaked in mystery. The enormous geoglyphs number in the thousands and portray everything from animals and plants to seemingly mythical beasts and geometric ...

While installing new gas lines just beneath the busy streets of Lima, Peru, utility workers unearthed an unexpected archaeological bounty: eight pre-Inca mummies and a wealth of artifacts. "We are ...

Peru's first great empire left no written records. Now, archaeologists are piecing together who the Wari were with the help ...

A sophisticated arrangement of knots and strings, found on the site of the oldest city in the Americas, indicates ancient Peruvians were skilled at conveying detailed information much earlier than ...

Mysterious pre-Incan peoples ruled present-day Chile, Peru and Bolivia. From the arid northern coastal plains of Peru rose the blood thirsty Moche. And from the Altiplano Plateau — second highest ...

Bigwigs in a more than 600-year-old South American population were easy to spot. Their artificially elongated, teardrop-shaped heads screamed prestige, a new study finds. During the 300 years before ...

Scientists made the discovery of the settlement high up in the Peruvian Andes, around 13,000 feet with cutting-edge technology that has paved the way for several archaeological finds. The site is ...