These ancient structures still stand - but the people who built them remain a mystery that history can’t fully explain.

The Chachapoya remain one of the lesser known pre-Hispanic cultures of South America. This is partly down to geography. As suggested by their epithet “people of the cloud forest,” the Chachapoya ...

Beneath the stone-paved streets of Cusco, a city layered with centuries of Andean and colonial history, researchers have ...

High in the Peruvian Andes, where clouds cling to steep slopes and moss drapes every branch, archaeologists have mapped more than 100 hidden structures from a long-vanished city. The discovery, buried ...

Archaeologists unearthed an ancient stone structure, one of the oldest of its kind, with a “ceremonial” function at Callacpuma, a study said. Photo from Jason Toohey via the University of Wyoming ...