Peru’s geography spans three dramatic worlds: the Andes Mountains, the Pacific coastal deserts, and the vast Amazon basin.

Researchers have uncovered extensive pre-Hispanic settlements hidden beneath the waters and vegetation of Bolivia's Great Tectonic Lakes. Using advanced LiDAR technology and collaborative fieldwork ...

Maya collapse wasn’t driven by drought alone, but by a cascading breakdown of interconnected political, social, and economic ...

Archaeologists often seek to understand ancient cultures by studying images left behind on rock faces. While these images ...

The Pecos River murals are a stunning collection of monumental, multicolored rock paintings in limestone rock shelters across ...

Ancient genetic data from central Argentina reveal a previously unknown human population that endured there for millennia.

For a long time, archaeologists believed that large buildings required large bosses. The idea was simple: only societies with strong hierarchies (kings, priests, and planners) could organize massive ...

On Veterans Day, I am reminded that the hardships of military service provided me with the most valuable lessons of civics. In the days after driving off the battlefields of Iraq, I faced a personal ...

The ancient city of Caral, Peru. Credit: Ministry of Culture, Peru Archaeologists in Peru have uncovered new evidence showing how the oldest known civilization in the Americas survived a severe ...

New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early communities harnessed predictable tides for irrigation, but when deltas ...