Utility workers excavating trenches to expand an underground gas network in the capital of Peru unearthed two pre-Incan tombs on Thursday that are more than 1,000 years old. One of the tombs was empty ...

It was early November when my wife, Raija, and I climbed aboard an early-morning bus for Lake Titicaca. I’d been living in Arequipa, Peru, for five months as a Fulbright Scholar, researching a book ...

Utility workers excavating trenches to expand the network of natural gas pipelines in Peru’s capital have uncovered a pre-Inca mummy approximately 1,000 years old, barely 20 inches from the surface.

Inca bureaucrats recorded all the goings-on in their bustling empire using knotted cords called khipu, where the position and order of the knots represented numbers. They relied on the khipu system to ...

A temple burial discovered in Peru from roughly 3,800 years ago pre-dates the rise of the Incan Empire. Archaeologists found four skeletal remains, all laid facing the mountains, the source of water ...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Utility workers excavating trenches to expand underground gas networks in Peru’s capital unearthed two pre-Incan tombs on Thursday. One was empty, but the other held the ...