The incident at Chan Chan, the largest adobe city in the Americas, has drawn attention to the lax security at the ...

Photos show the ancient circular structure where elites would set fire to offerings of beads, food or other items.

Scientists have unearthed the body of a 4,500-year-old woman in Peru. What’s surprising is that they found not just her bones ...

A peculiar peak in the middle of the Amazon rainforest may not just be a geological oddity after all. The 1,310-foot-tall ...

TRUJILLO, Peru, - Peruvian mining sector worker Frank Monzón was aware of the risks, but the lure of gold deep in the Andean rock of northern Pataz province outweighed the danger. Now he and 12 ...

It dates from the time of the pharaoh Sneferu, the father of Khufu, builder of the Great Pyramid of Giza, who used it as a staging post for expeditions to the Sinai Peninsula in search of turquoise ...

Cerro El Cono may be a volcano, sacred site, or lost pyramid—its origin The peak is revered as an Apu by Indigenous communities in the Andes-Am Conservation efforts in Sierra del Divisor National Park ...

The 1,310-foot-tall, pyramid-shaped hill sits in Peru’s Sierra del Divisor National ... mountain spirits dates back to a time before the Inca Empire, between 500 and 1000 CE, but another ...

The 1,310ft-tall peak shoots up from Sierra del Divisor National Park in eastern Peru, near the border with Brazil. Its shape is strikingly similar to the pyramids of Giza - with broad ...

Archaeologists in Peru have discovered a 2,500-year-old secret ... drug-fueled rituals in pre-Inca times. "The tubes are analogous to the rolled-up bills that high-rollers snort cocaine through ...