Located roughly 300 miles north of Lima in Río Abiseo National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Gran Pajatén complex ...

The election of Leo XIV to the papacy has put an unexpected spotlight on one of the most unusual treasures of Catholic ...

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 ...

which flourished on Peru’s northern coast between the 12th and 15th centuries C.E. before becoming a vassal state in the Inca empire in the 1470s. Located at the mouth of Moche River ...

You can learn about the evolution of Peruvian textiles from Chavín, Paracas, and Chimú cultures to the Inca. The second room displays the techniques used to make the art through detailed interac ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...