Peñico is more than 3800 years old and was originally an urban center of social integration in the ancient world, linking ...

The Inca world : ancient people and places ; art, architecture, religion, everyday life, culture ; the native civilizations of the Andes and South America explored in 500 paintings, drawing and ...

In the Andean highlands near Lake Titicaca, Sebastian Quimicchi — an Inca from the town of San Pedro de Cocharcas — commissioned a painted copy of the sculpture "Our Lady ...

A sculpture crafted using an ancient construction technique and inspired by the sand dune landscape off the Wirral coast has won the annual Liverpool Sculpture Prize. The cylindrical sculpture, named ...

Two thousand years before the Inca empire dominated the Andes, a lesser-known society known as the Chavín Phenomenon shared ...

A trek high in the Peruvian Andes reveals dazzling ancient buildings, stellar views, and mysterious llama art. In the Peruvian Andes, the ruins of the ancient Inca settlement of Choquequirao can ...

Peru has more ancient sites than authorities are able to protect and conserve "Everywhere you dig, you will find something — because Lima was home to great civilizations," says a museum director ...

A team of archaeologists has discovered an ancient labyrinthine system of tunnels hidden beneath the Peruvian city of Cusco, a former Inca stronghold nestled in the Andes mountains. The tunnel ...

Bronze head sculptures on display at the new Sanxingdui Museum building in Guanghan, Southwest China's Sichuan Province Photo: VCG A golden sun and immortal bird ornament, along with a massive ...

A French cave with some of the earliest known paintings and Inca trails spanning six countries are among sites up for World Heritage status at a Unesco meeting in Qatar.