The mummy had gone unnoticed despite urban development in a district where agricultural fields have been converted into working-class neighborhoods.

A Peruvian cave packed with hundreds of pre-Hispanic artifacts has some believing in aliens, spurring grave robbers to steal the mummies and other historical items to sell on the black market.

Julio Cesar Bermejo, 26, a food deliveryman in Peru, has been detained after police found a pre-Hispanic mummy up to 800 years old that he dubbed "Juanita" inside his cooler bag.

A mummy was discovered by utility workers in Peru, and it is believed to have belonged to an adolescent from a pre-Inca culture.

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

The discovery was confirmed; these were the remains of a pre-Inca mummy, preserved for nearly 1,000 years beneath the ...

Archaeologists in Peru have unearthed four mummies of children believed to be at least 1,000 years old from what was once a sacred ceremonial space that is now in one of the oldest neighbourhoods ...

Mummies in the Chancay culture found in present-day Peru were often buried with pots filled with "chicha," or beer made from corn.

Utility workers excavating trenches to expand the network of natural gas pipelines in Peru’s capital have uncovered a ...

Peruvian man found carrying mummy at least 600 years old in food delivery bag The man was showing the mummy to two friends in a park, police say.

The discovery of suspected “alien mummies” in Peru has generated fresh excitement after a lawyer declared that their fingerprints are “not human”. Two of the humanoid figures were unveiled ...

The environment along Peru’s coastline often naturally mummifies remains. Workers laying new natural gas pipeline in Lima, ...