PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- For the second year, the City of Philadelphia is officially recognizing Indigenous Peoples Day. It was a decision meant to increase visibility, but some members of the ...

Elmore began the public talk, titled “Afterlives of the Inca: The Long History of Apu Inka Atawallpaman,” with an analysis of an 1867 painting by Peruvian artist Luis Montero depicting the funeral of ...

Ancient Indigenous people in Peru had a unique response to the looting and destruction of their ancestors' graves during the European colonial period, an international team of archaeologists has ...

An ancient Inca ritual of making offerings to the sun was re-enacted on Monday in Lima in a traditional play that brought actors and Indigenous communities together. The Inti Raymi was performed ...

Our Lady of the Rosary of Guápulo is a devotional image venerated in the outskirts of Quito, Ecuador, and was promoted by a confraternity of local merchants dating back to 1587. The original sculpture ...

LIMA/DESAGUADERO, Peru, Jan 30 (Reuters) - In the Peruvian southern border town of Desaguadero, indigenous protester Adela Perez is defiant after almost eight weeks of deadly clashes that have roiled ...

Introduction: Death's Heads: Humanity's Peruvian Ancestors at the Smithsonian -- Part 1. Opening, 1525-1795. Curing Incas: Andean Lifeways and the Pre-Hispanic Imperial Dead -- Embalming Incas: Huayna ...