Unlocking the Past, Guiding the Future
Unlocking the Past, Guiding the Future
In the remote Atico River Valley on Peru’s southern coast, archaeologists uncovered a mass grave that depicts a grim scene of an ancient and savage battle. In a large, circular stone tomb at the El Curaca site, scientists discovered the…
In a breakthrough study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on January 13, researchers revealed elaborate tattoos on the mummified bodies of people from Peru’s Chancay culture, which flourished from 900 to 1470 CE. Using a…
Archaeologists working at Pañamarca, an ancient Moche site in Peru’s Ancash Region, have unearthed a throne room belonging to a powerful Moche woman. The site, which sits on a granite hill in the lower Nepeña Valley, dates back to the…
Archaeologists from the National University of Trujillo (UNT) have unearthed the remains of four individuals buried approximately 3,800 years ago, long before the rise of the Inca Empire, in Peru’s Viru Valley. The site, located in the San Juan ravine,…
Archaeologists in Peru have uncovered the ruins of a 5,000-year-old ceremonial temple and skeletal remains beneath a sand dune in the Zaña district of northwestern Peru. The site is part of the Los Paredones de la Otra Banda-Las Ánimas Archaeological…
Around 700 years ago, well before the Inca Empire’s rise in 1400 CE, a group of people in the Andes Mountains created a unique platform that turned rhythmic stomping into thunderous booms, all in honor of a thunder god. Archaeologist…
Archaeologists have made a remarkable discovery of two murals portraying men with two faces in a ceremonial hall of the Nepeña Valley in northern Peru. These murals are attributed to the Moche culture and are estimated to be around 1,400…
