A doorway cut with great precision into the face of a rocky mountain in Peru may be one of the world's greatest mysteries.

The Nobel Prize–winning novelist, who died this week, traveled through both literature and politics with a heedlessness you ...

Researchers say the temple is a key to Andean civilization (Bernardino Ojeda blows dust from a mural). Anne Bolen Within days, Duncan spied a prominent rock on a ridge to the east. It lined up ...

George Steinmetz Outlines of a Civilization Emerge ... arid region squeezed between the Pacific Ocean and the folds of the Andean Cordillera. But looks deceive. These are human-made pyramids ...

An Andean woman in Peru performs a coca leaf ... not to mention all the cultures and civilizations that came before them. Coca has been universally heralded — an earthly gift bestowed upon ...

As vital sources of food, fiber, and transport, these Andean animals were among the ... bookended in history by two civilizations that loom much larger in the popular imagination: the Moche ...

Nonetheless, he thought that only foreign aid could assure his coffee-growing Andean country of 14 million of “a decisive stake in the material civilization of the West,” preventing “a ...