An archaeologist is piecing together what the V-shaped stone structures—some stretching 500 feet long—were used for.

A new study published in the Revista de Arqueología Americana suggests that the Wari, who flourished from about A.D. 600 to ...

Meticulously researched and elegantly written, this collection of eight essays searches for traces of past civilizations and ...

The peanut feels very American, but the U.S. is only number four on the list of highest peanut-growing countries. Find out ...

"Presented by Florida International Museum; organized by WONDERS, the Memphis International Cultural Series, in association with PromPerú and the Instituto Nacional de Cultura del Perú." Catalog of an ...

See the portraits of a 6- or 7-year-old child, a woman in her 60s, and two young men who were buried in Colombia between the ...

Skeletal remains of "Zimapán man" found with gut bacteria revealing lost microbes and healthier, natural diets before modern ...

The discovery of Mummified Dogs in southern Peru has opened a new chapter in understanding the deep ties between humans and ...

What comes to mind when folks think Peru is the historic Inca Machu Picchu. It certainly is a site to behold, but now they ...

Explore Machachi City, a highland town nestled in the Ecuadorian Andes along the Avenue of the Volcanoes. This ultra-high-definition aerial footage captures a peaceful morning scene, with low clouds ...

Meet the Zimapán man, a mummy from the Mesoamerican Otopame culture, whose intestines bustled with bacteria, around a ...

Like many of them, he draws from multiple cultures and traditions—Spanish and Quechua speaking, global and local, ancient and modern. And with his fellow artists, he’s creating something entirely new: ...