Lima is one of South America’s largest cities, with a population of over 11 million. This coastal metropolis has dozens of museums, galleries, murals, and studios that rival anywhere else in the world ...

Researchers in Peru have considerably expanded the known footprint of Gran Pajatén, a pre-Hispanic settlement of the ...

The incident at Chan Chan, the largest adobe city in the Americas, has drawn attention to the lax security at the ...

Thousands of years ago in modern-day Peru, hallucinogenic plants were in use in ritual ceremonies at the renowned Chavín de ...

Ancient Chavín elites used hallucinogens in private rituals to strengthen their authority and shape early social hierarchies.

They put the Inca leader on trial, convicted him, and sentenced him to death. Atahualpa was executed on July 26, 1533. (Meet Peru’s first women porters.) For a while, Cajamarca became the ...

Along the narrow, cobbled streets of San Blas, the artisanal quarter of Cusco, Peru ... Inca capital high up in the Andes. Cassidy, who is from Fermanagh, studied ceramics in the National College ...

EL PAÍS received exclusive access to the latest developments and updates in the Ancient American Art section of the ...

Some said Paul Gauguin was a monster, and others said he was a master. Sue Prideaux implies he was both in her book Wild ...

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That includes ancient Egypt, as well as ancient Greek, Vedic, Maya, Inca, and Aztec cultures. The Urarina people who live in the Peruvian Amazon Basin still use a psychoactive brew called ayahuasca in ...