Island’s famous Moai statues remain one of the greatest archaeological enigmas in the world. This video questions the mainstream narrative that Polynesian settlers carved and transported over 1,000 ...

Whether standing stones, nondescript mounds, or lines in the earth, ancient civilizations have ... from volcanic tuff with hand tools, the statues were transported somehow to positions on stone ...

As you travel around Cusco and Peru’s Sacred Valley or further south in the region of Puno (near Lake Titicaca), keep an eye on the rooftops. You will often fin ...

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 ...

The new installation celebrates over 4,000 years of Indigenous art of the Americas with contemporary art, community perspectives, and bilingual materials ...

The Atlantic has a fascinating deep dive into khipus — long cords that the Inca tied knots into to preserve information. Few ...

The recent excavation discovered an “androna”—a social space in Greek houses designated exclusively for men. Researchers also ...

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

Archaeologists working in the ancient city of Nineveh—now Mosul, Iraq—have unearthed a gigantic statue depicting King ...

After its original discovery in 1885, an ancient statue sanctuary in Cyprus was subsequently covered in sand and lost to time yet again. However, a recent archaeological effort rediscovered the ...

BLACKSBURG — Four years’ worth of research on the ancient Inca Road of the Andes led by a Virginia Tech engineering professor will be part of a major Smithsonian Institution exhibit scheduled ...