The discovery was confirmed; these were the remains of a pre-Inca mummy, preserved for nearly 1,000 years beneath the ...

The burial belonged to a child who may have lived among fishermen from the Chancay culture, which thrived in Peru before the ...

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Utility workers excavating trenches to expand the network of natural gas pipelines in Peru’s capital have uncovered a pre-Inca mummy approximately 1,000 years old, barely half a meter from the surface ...

A key witness in a longstanding corruption case in Peru was found dead Sunday, a dark new development in the saga over the ...

Archaeologists on Thursday unveiled a 3,500-year-old city in Peru that likely served as a trading hub linking Pacific coast cultures with those in the Andes and Amazon, flourishing around the same ...

LIMA, Peru — Although the top tourist destination in Peru is the ancient Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, high in the Andes Mountains, the capital Lima also holds a treasure trove of ancient ruins ...

Yet, the protests have fiercely divided public opinion in Peru — while 60 percent of rural Peruvians support them, that figure drops to less than 40 percent among Lima residents, according to a ...

A protest by informal miners in Peru is blocking parts of a key copper corridor used by major miners MMG , Glencore and Hudbay , leaders of the action and an industry source said on Wednesday.

LIMA, Peru — So many former presidents in Peru have run afoul with the law that the country has set up a special penitentiary for them — and it's full. The Barbadillo prison is located on the ...

Lima is a city of contrasts and contradictions — gray and tropical, dense and isolated. Augusto Higa Oshiro, one of its writers, recommended books and authors that have captured its complexity.