In 1943, farmers from the village of La Victoria discovered a cache of buried items, including the...
Peru
The tombs were found almost completely undisturbed. A Golden Discovery In 1987, Peruvian archaeologist Walter Alva received...
Heads are a frequent motif appearing in all phases of Paracas art, and severed human heads have...
Paracans had the means to support a rich culture and forge reciprocal trade relationships with other Early...
The Inca Empire was a complex society that developed in the Andes Mountains of South America. Introduction...
The initial prosperity of the Chimú was largely due to their agricultural skills as they built an...
The Chancay lived on the central coast of Peru from c.1000 C.E. until their conquest by the...
Even with the clash of cultures, the Inka (among other peoples) adapted to the new circumstances, as...
The site features architecture, from houses to terraces, built by carefully fitting individual stones against each other....
Over the course of 700 years, the site drew many worshipers to its temple. Chavín de Huántar...
Lake Titicaca was long considered the origin and centre of the cosmos by the local populace and...
We see an interplay of Inka and Peruvian works. Signaling Spanish Dominance in Cuzco, Peru The transmission...
For nearly 2,000 uninterrupted years, the region’s ancient inhabitants drew thousands of large-scale zoomorphic and anthropomorphic figures...
In Peru, the challenge of providing health care to the country’s citizens has spurred interest in alternative...
The ancient pilgrimage center at Chavín provides the multifaceted material evidence needed for an archaeoacoustic case study....