From a distance, a stepped stone silhouette on Peru’s coast can look uncannily like something lifted from the Nile. The resemblance is striking enough that visitors often reach for Egyptian ...

Researchers uncovered a circular structure on a hillside in Peru’s northern Barranca province, including the remains of stone and mud buildings constructed at about 600m (1,970ft) above sea level ...

The Chachapoya remain one of the lesser known pre-Hispanic cultures of South America. This is partly down to geography. As suggested by their epithet “people of the cloud forest,” the Chachapoya ...

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 ...

Excavations in a valley in southern Peru revealed a special collective burial for victims of conflict, Polish researchers said. Screengrab from Institute of Archaeology at the University of Wrocław's ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a lost city in Peru that thrived 3,500 years ago, likely as a potential contemporary of early human societies such as the ancient Egyptian and Sumerian civilisations of ...