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 they’d just discovered a cache of 500-year-old treasures. Locals in Puente ...

However, a few stories stand out above the rest. Here are my top picks for 2024. Our coverage of mass child sacrifice in a pre-Incan culture in Peru was the most read archaeology story on Live Science ...

Excavations in a valley in southern Peru revealed a special collective burial for victims of conflict, Polish researchers ...

Contemporary Peruvian expert Luis Lumbreras, the former director of Peru's National Institute ... It's highly unlikely that researchers will find an archaeological smoking gun that will ...

Humans have always lived by the coasts and waterways, and thus these locations are rich with archaeological sites. Natural ...

As a plane soars over the high desert of southern Peru, the dull pale sameness of ... a former National Geographic grantee, agrees, "Our discoveries clearly showed that the straight lines and ...

The face of the Lady of Cao, considered to be a queen who ruled northern Peru 1,700 years ago ... just as it was found in 2005 at the El Brujo archaeological complex.

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

Located on the northern coast of present-day Peru, about 480 km north of Lima in the Moche valley, between the Pacific Ocean and the city of Trujillo, the World Heritage site “Chan Chan Archaeological ...