On the southern shores of Lake Titicaca in present-day Bolivia, more than a thousand years ago, one of the most powerful and enigmatic civilizations of the Andes developed: the Tiwanaku. Considered by ...

Long before the Inka (commonly known as Inca in English) rose to power, a mysterious civilization bloomed on the edge of Lake ...

The ruins revealed the ancient society of a powerful civilization that existed on the southern shores of Lake Titicaca in ...

A long-forgotten world has emerged from the cloud forests of Peru, revealing stunning ancient structures hidden for centuries. New technology uncovers a mysterious civilization far more complex than ...

Ancient cities and cultures are a subject of fascination all over the world. Peru was home to a number of cultures in the ancient and medieval periods including the Inca Empire. Peru sees between 3 ...

Utility workers in Lima, Peru, recently uncovered a 1,000-year-old mummy predating the Inca Empire. The mummy likely belongs to the Chancay culture that existed from 1000 to 1470 A.D ...

Utility workers excavating trenches to expand the network of natural gas pipelines in Peru’s capital have uncovered a ...

Before the rise of the Inca Empire in the 15th century, the Chancay culture thrived on the Peruvian coast between roughly 1000 and 1500. Europeans arrived in the region in the 16th century, and ...

A pre-Hispanic mummy dating back 1,000 years was recently found by utility workers in Lima, Peru, with archaeologists linking it to the Chancay culture that predated the Inca Empire.

Andean people of the past looked at these strings as a record of the climate, and they studied them to understand patterns.

Many scholars consider the Tiwanaku to be the precursor to the Inca Empire and one of the earliest complex societies in the Andes region. The civilization suddenly and mysteriously collapsed ...