Archaeologists in Peru have discovered the burial of an elite woman with remarkable grave goods, including decorative crafts made from a toucan's beak and macaw feathers. The woman lived sometime ...

Around 5,000 years ago, members of an ancient Peruvian Indigenous group buried an elite member of their society: They wrapped her body in layers of cloth, woven plants and colorful macaw feathers, and ...

LIMA (Reuters) -Archaeologists in coastal Peru have discovered the 5,000-year-old remains of a woman who may have belonged to the upper echelons of the ancient Caral civilization, a find they say ...

CARAL, Peru — In a barren landscape that now looks like the moon, a mysterious culture built pyramids here nearly 5,000 years ago. Until recently, few archeologists would have believed that. The ...

Discover the 3,800-year-old desert city of Peñico in Peru, revealing how the heirs of Caral faced crises without resorting to war.

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The woman—with skin, hair and nails still intact—belonged to the little-known Caral civilization, which flourished in Peru 5,000 years ago Reading time 2 minutes Roughly around the same time that ...

Archaeologists in Peru have uncovered new evidence showing how the oldest known civilization in the Americas, the Caral culture, adapted to a severe climate crisis more than 4,000 years ago without ...

On the arid desert slopes of northern Peru, archaeologists have unearthed a 3,800-year-old city that could transform the understanding of the continent's earliest civilizations. The site, called ...

The amphitheater served as the ceremonial heart of a thriving city 4,600 years ago. George Steinmetz Why Did They Leave the Coast? Fishermen today ply Peru's coast in bull-rush boats as they have for ...