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 ...

Anthropological analysis suggests all individuals died from traumatic injuries, indicating they were victims of armed ...

Long before the age of the Inca, the Chuquibamba culture called the mountains and valleys of southern Peru home. The Inca, ...

On the outskirts of Lima, Peru, locals stumbled upon some dusty items in a vacant lot. They didn’t know it at the time, but ...

shouted Johny Isla, a Peruvian archaeologist ... and anyone fascinated by ancient cultures in the Americas. For just as long, waves of scientists—and amateurs—have inflicted various ...

In October 2024, the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Wrocław (UWr) began a new season of archaeological ...

the retrospective celebrates “the successes of ancient Peruvian civilizations over 3,000 years” Carole Fraresso, curator of the exhibition and associate researcher at the Larco Museum ...

A trio of painted, unfired-clay figurines has come to light at the coastal site of Vichama in what is now Peru. The three may represent powerful people in an offshoot of the ancient Caral culture.

Duncan They were excavating at Buena Vista, an ancient settlement in ... If so, Benfer says, "Peru is the only exception to how civilizations developed 4,000 to 5,000 years ago." ...

Ancient beliefs, behaviors and norms – what archaeologists call culture – were fundamentally integrated into technological solutions in this part of Peru in ancient times. Isolating and ...