CUSCO, Peru, June 30 (Xinhua) -- Each June, the Peruvian city of Cusco, nestled high in the Andes, comes alive with Inti Raymi, or the Festival of the Sun -- one of the most iconic celebrations of ...

A pre-Hispanic mummy dating back 1,000 years was recently found by utility workers in Lima, Peru, with archaeologists linking ...

Recent archaeological discovery expands our knowledge on complex Indigenous societies in South America.

Ruins of the Palaspata temple complex from the millennia-old Tiwanaku civilization are unraveling some mysteries about the ...

The burial belonged to a child who may have lived among fishermen from the Chancay culture, which thrived in Peru before the ...

The Tiwanaku civilization thrived high in the Andes Mountains long before the Inca Empire started. Located near Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, the millennia-old city of Tiwanaku was built almost 13,000 ...

Utility workers in Lima, Peru, recently uncovered a 1,000-year-old mummy predating the Inca Empire. The mummy likely belongs to the Chancay culture that existed from 1000 to 1470 A.D. (Source: The Ass ...

An ancient society near the southern shores of Lake Titicaca in modern-day Bolivia was once one of the continent's most ...