Latest news and research on Andean archaeology, exploring ancient cultures, discoveries, and heritage across the Andes region.
Archaeologists working on high Andean volcanoes have identified the first clear case of deliberate mummification of a child sacrificed in ...
A newly analyzed Andean trophy head from southern Peru is providing new insight into how ancient societies viewed individuals with ...
Researchers at the Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex in Peru have discovered an ancient structure that existed before what was considered to ...
Archaeologists working in Peru have uncovered fresh evidence of how the oldest known civilization in the Americas confronted a severe ...
In the southern Peruvian Andes, a long band of thousands of carefully carved holes at a high altitude has perplexed ...
Satellite imagery has revealed 76 ancient stone hunting traps and hundreds of previously unseen settlements in the high-altitude Andes of ...
A new study suggests that the Wari, a pre-Inca civilization that flourished in the central Andes between 600 and 1000 ...
The faces of centuries-old Colombian Andean mummies have been digitally reconstructed for the first time, providing a remarkable insight into ...
Archaeologists working on Peru's northern coast have unearthed what they believe to be one of the clearest instances of ritual ...
A recently studied 500-year-old Inca khipu (Quipu) has overturned assumptions about who created these intricate thread-based documents. The study, published ...
