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

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 ...

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 ...

Ch. 1. The Mochica. The Lost Tribes of Central America, Peru and Bolivia -- The Battle Against Nature -- The First Stone-Builders -- The Long-Lost Pyramids of Peru -- The Tomb of the Lord of Sipan -- ...

ERA DE PANDO, PERU—The Kansas City Star reports that Peruvian authorities made a stunning new discovery at the site of Era de Pando in the Supe Valley. The region was home to the Caral culture, which ...

Anthologists working in the northern Peruvian Andes have excavated a circular stone plaza, cited as one of the earliest examples of monumental megalithic architecture in the Americas. Dated back ...

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 ...