On the southern shores of Lake Titicaca in present-day Bolivia, more than a thousand years ago, one of the most powerful and enigmatic civilizations of the Andes developed: the Tiwanaku. Considered by ...

The ruins revealed the ancient society of a powerful civilization that existed on the southern shores of Lake Titicaca in ...

A long-forgotten world has emerged from the cloud forests of Peru, revealing stunning ancient structures hidden for centuries ...

In total, these data are consistent with the radiocarbon results, supporting that 1) with the maize is in fact consistent with an archaeological biological sample, and 2) with based on the geographic ...

Utility workers in Lima, Peru, recently uncovered a 1,000-year-old mummy predating the Inca Empire. The mummy likely belongs to the Chancay culture that existed from 1000 to 1470 A.D ...

Utility workers excavating trenches to expand the network of natural gas pipelines in Peru’s capital have uncovered a ...

A pre-Hispanic mummy dating back 1,000 years was recently found by utility workers in Lima, Peru, with archaeologists linking it to the Chancay culture that predated the Inca Empire.

Located roughly 300 miles north of Lima in Río Abiseo National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Gran Pajatén complex contains remnants of the Chachapoya civilization, which thrived in the ...

Based on archaeological excavations, we know that ancient Andean civilizations emerged at least as far back as 3500 B.C.E. and evolved until the Spanish conquest started in the 15th century. Notably, ...

Five centuries ago, the Incas ruled the western half of South America with the help of a unique form of writing based on ...