Cusco is designed in the shape of a puma, a sacred symbol in Incan ... ago as part of an Inca ritual to appease the gods. Chan Chan is an ancient adobe city near Trujillo on Peru’s northern ...

Archaeologists in Peru have discovered ancient temple ruins that could predate the ... and includes an area in the shape of a Chacana, an Incan religious symbol. "It's from both the Inca and pre-Inca ...

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

LIMA, Peru — Although the top tourist destination in Peru is the ancient Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, high in the Andes Mountains, the capital Lima also holds a treasure trove of ancient ruins ...

Researchers in Peru have considerably expanded the known footprint of Gran Pajatén, a pre-Hispanic settlement of the ...

one of Peru's most popular tourism destinations and sacred capital of the Inca empire. Each year, tens of thousands of trekkers walk the Inca Trail that takes them high into the Andes Mountains before ...

LIMA, June 22 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed an Inca-era tomb in the heart of Peru's capital Lima, archaeologists said on Wednesday, a burial dug up under a working-class home and believed ...

LIMA, July 8 (Reuters) - Archaeologists in Peru have discovered the remains of what is believed to be wealthy members of the Chimu civilization, a pre-Inca society that thrived for centuries in ...

Archeologists have confirmed the existence of ancient tunnels which run under the famous city of Cusco in Peru. Cusco which is a UNESCO world heritage site is formerly the capital of the Inca empire.

The discovery was made in the Chimu capital of Chan Chan, a short distance north of the modern Peruvian city of Trujillo. The ancient capital ... a pre-Inca society that thrived for centuries ...