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 ...

Long before the age of the Inca, the Chuquibamba culture called the mountains and valleys of southern Peru home. The Inca, ...

Some 500 years ago, the Chimú in what is now Peru ritually killed hundreds ... and buried around A.D. 1450 at two sites near Chan Chan, the ancient capital of the Chimú people.

In 1911, former U.S. senator and explorer Hiram Bingham rediscovered what would become one the “Seven Wonders of the Modern ...

A trio of painted, unfired-clay figurines has come to light at the coastal site of Vichama in what is now Peru. The three may represent powerful people in an offshoot of the ancient Caral culture.

uncovered the ancient site in 1911 that the world took notice. And what notice it was. Machu Picchu's visitor numbers grew quickly, as did its aura. It soon became Peru's largest driver of tourism.

Peru's National Institute of Culture is supporting efforts to preserve the site. Tentlike protective ... that both are impractical, given the ancient capital's sheer size. Meanwhile, the rains ...

One clue that the Buena Vista site was aligned with ... at Buena Vista, an ancient settlement in the foothills of the Andes an hour's drive north of Lima, Peru. A dozen archaeology students ...

The Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, the crown jewel of Peru's tourist sites, reopened on Sunday with an ancient ritual after a nearly eight-month lockdown due to the novel coronavirus pandemic.