Researchers say rare Tiwanaku dog burials in ancient Peru reveal that ordinary families cared for companion animals over ...

Seeing the north coast of Peru for the first time, you would be hard-pressed to believe it's one of the driest deserts in the world. However, the apparent success of this system masks an underlying ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient city of Penico unearthed in Peru (Peru Ministry of Culture) Researchers uncovered a circular structure on a hillside in ...

At the risk of sounding like Colman Domingo’s character in a recent SNL sketch: did you know that ancient societies had observatories of their own? While their technology was not quite at the level of ...

Officials said the ancient city of Kuélap is the most important archaeological site in northeastern Peru. Photo by Peru's Ministry of Culture. High up in the mountains of Peru’s Amazonas region, in ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — For more than 5,000 years, humans have adorned themselves with tattoos. In a new study, researchers used lasers to uncover highly intricate designs of ancient tattoos on mummies from ...

Undated handout picture released by the Royal Tombs of Sipan Museum of one of the 29 human remains discovered at an ancient ceremonial site in Lambayeque ...

The woman—with skin, hair and nails still intact—belonged to the little-known Caral civilization, which flourished in Peru 5,000 years ago Reading time 2 minutes Roughly around the same time that ...

Archaeologists must have one of the coolest jobs ever—as long as a lifetime of digging around in the dirt yields some epic results, like priceless artifacts, treasure-filled tombs, or groundbreaking ...

Chachapoyas means “cloud forest” or “people of the clouds.” It refers to a pre-Incan civilization found in northern Peru. And when you’re standing atop the ancient Kuélap Fortress—at an elevation of ...

From historic vineyards in the Ica Valley to premium wine and pisco made from native grapes, Peru is rewriting the story of ...