A mummy in Egypt has yielded a shocking discovery: the DNA of the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis—thousands of years before ...

Archaeologists see Puente Piedra as a frontier of sorts. Wari officials had colonies across Peru between 600 and 1000 CE, ...

Known as Peñico, the city is now open to tourists. It was once a vibrant urban center that connected coastal, mountain and ...

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 Musée de l'Homme takes us into the fascinating history of mummies, with a promising exhibition-event to be discovered ...

Conservationists have identified a new subpopulation of rare Andean deer in Cape Froward, a remote region in southern Patagonia, in a discovery that has been hailed as a significant breakthrough for ...

Construction workers were struck by a “long piece of iron” while cleaning a small river known as the Korte Linschoten, the ...

Gas workers digging beneath a major capital city stumbled upon a 1,000-year-old mummy, almost on the opposite side of the ...

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

Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, Bolivia, Egypt, Hawaii, Easter Island and other exotic places. With special ...

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

Peruvian gas workers this week found a thousand-year-old mummy while installing pipes in Lima, their company said, confirming the latest discovery of a pre-Hispanic tomb in the capital. The workers ...