TEMPE, ARIZONA—Hair samples taken from 14 mummies discovered in Peru’s Paracas Necropolis of Wari Kayan, and two artifacts made of human hair, have been analyzed by a team made up of Kelly Knudson of ...

A Peruvian funeral shroud from 2,000 years ago shows the great skill and ability of ancient artisans in the region. The fragile textile was displayed to the press on 16 June during its transport back ...

A frame grab from a video courtesy of the Peruvian Ministry of Culture shows police examining the damage at the Paracas Candelabra - Copyright AFP MIGUEL MEDINA A ...

Workers at the Nazca Lines site recently found the faded, partially eroded outline of a cat stretching across a desert hillside. The cat joins the ever-growing list of about 900 shapes and images that ...

Construction workers dug up two well-preserved mummies from the pre-Columbian era in a town on Peru's Pacific coast, archaeologists said Tuesday. Dozens of other mummies are buried at the site in the ...

Archaeologists in Peru uncovered a 37-meter-long cat geoglyph on a Nazca hillside, dating to around 200 BCE, centuries before most known lines. Created by the Paracas culture, the design links two ...

Sweeping over the vast coastal desert of southern Peru, archaeologists have discovered giant ground drawings older than the nearby, more famous Nazca Lines. Using drone technology, a team from the ...

Ancient residents of Peru laid down lines of rocks in the coastal desert that may have pointed to the sites of trade fairs, a new study suggests. The features date to around 300 B.C., centuries ahead ...

Peruvian archaeologists recently discovered over 50 new Nasca lines in the Peruvian desert. Scientists found the lines while using drones to survey other locally-known geoglyphs for the first time, ...

Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, ...