The drawings, made at least 2,000 years ago in an elevated desert in southern Peru, provide insights into the customs of the ancient Nazca civilization.

Archeologists discover oldest non-royal mummy ever in Egypt The possible living face of Peru's most famous mummy, a teenage Inca girl sacrificed in a ritual more than 500 years ago atop the Andes ...

Child sacrifices were a ritual part of Inca culture. The Inca Empire was the largest in the Americas before the Europeans arrived, and taking children from subject populations was thought to be a ...

The Inca Empire stretched over 5,500 kilometres and was the largest state in the world in the 1400s. Around 40,000 Inca nobles ruled an empire of 12 million conquered people throughout the Andes ...

Utility workers excavating trenches to expand the network of natural gas pipelines in Peru’s capital have uncovered a pre-Inca mummy approximately 1,000 years old, barely 20 inches from the surface.

See Newly Discovered Nazca Drawings That Depict Llamas, Human Sacrifices and More An A.I.-assisted study identified 303 previously unknown geoglyphs in the Peruvian desert.