Andean people of the past looked at these strings as a record of the climate, and they studied them to understand patterns.

Researchers at a Pennsylvania museum are hoping to bring "life" to a more than 2,000-year-old Peruvian mummy that has been locked away in storage for years. In order to uncover hidden secrets ...

LIMA, Peru -- Peru's famed gold museum, a top tourist attraction, lost some of its luster when the country's consumer protection agency said it was investigating claims that up to 85 percent of ...

and now we have evidence about some of the earliest religious spaces that people were creating in this part of the world,” according to the Field Museum. Moreover, the team found skeletons of ...

Peruvian police took a man into custody over ... according to the American Museum of Natural History. The country is home to numerous archeological sites, most notably Machu Picchu.

The Amazon Basin contains the world's largest system of rainforest and rivers. Two of these rivers, the Putumayo and the ...

Christopher Heaney is an assistant professor of history at Pennsylvania State University and the author of “Empires of the Dead: Inca Mummies and the Peruvian Ancestors of American Anthropology.” ...

LIMA, Dec 7 (Reuters) - A pre-Incan mummy found in Peru and thought to be between 800 and 1,200 years old, went on display on Tuesday at the San Marcos University in Lima after archaeologists ...

The remains were then donated to the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (SBMNH) in 1925. The Peruvian Ministry of Culture concluded the remains qualified as part of Peru's National Cultural ...

The Rosenbach Museum voluntarily relinquished the manuscript ... which began in 2017 at the request of the Peruvian government. "It’s been an honor for our office to assist in the return of ...