El Cono in Peru’s Sierra del Divisor rises sharply above the Amazon rainforest and has fueled claims that it may be an ...

Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. LiveScience An ancient astronomical alignment in southern Peru has been discovered by researchers between a pyramid, two stone lines and ...

Time travel hasn’t been invented, but standing in the dusty desert plains off of Peru’s north-central coast, awed by the sight of a half-dozen crumbling pyramids, I’m not sure that’s entirely true.

A sprawling urban center in Peru sat untouched for millennia while archaeologists searched everywhere but here. Built at the same time as Egypt's great pyramids, this forgotten metropolis challenges ...

Archaeologists excavating some 4,000-year-old ruins in Peru found a circular altar used for ceremonial burns, officials said and photos show. Photo from Peru’s Ministry of Culture At the base of an ...

Workers cleaning overgrown bushes and trees from Chupacigarro archaeological site found an ancient pyramid-like building, officials said. Photo from Caral Archaeological Zone, Executive Unit 003 of ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A mummy thought to be around 1,000 years old has been discovered in ...

Each storm leaves a new wound: channels carved by water, layers of mud washed away, and reliefs slowly eroded. The increasingly intense rains associated with El Niño are wearing down the adobe ...

LIMA (Reuters) - Archaeologists exploring Peru's pre-Colombian past recently unearthed a glimpse of a less prominent chapter in the Andean country's history - the remains of 16 Chinese laborers from ...