For centuries, the vanished Inca fortress of Ancocagua existed only in lore. Now, at a mountaintop site in Peru, researchers are zeroing in on a discovery that could reshape what we know of the empire ...

Three decades ago, researchers working atop the Llullaillaco volcano, located on the border between Argentina and Chile, ...

Archaeological excavations in Cusco have uncovered human remains and gold artifacts dating to 1000 BC, belonging to the ...

8 pre-Inca mummies and artifacts unearthed just beneath the streets of Lima, Peru While installing new gas lines in Peru, workers unearthed nearly a dozen pre-Inca mummies buried alongside a variety ...

LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian President Alan Garcia led thousands of marchers through the streets of Lima on Friday to demand that Yale University return archeological treasures taken from Machu Picchu in ...

FERRENAFE, Peru (AP) -- Archaeologists said Tuesday they have unearthed 22 graves in northern Peru containing a trove of pre-Inca artifacts, including the first "tumi" ceremonial knives ever ...

An agreement last year to return the relics has stalled The Peruvian government is to take legal action to recover thousands of Machu Picchu artefacts from Yale University in the US, state media say.

A man attacked the stone with a metal object. Cusco Ministry of Culture An intoxicated man in Cusco, Peru, has defaced a historic Inca artifact known as the 12-angled stone. The carved rock is a piece ...

Peru has reportedly approved a plan to sue Yale University for thousands of Inca artifacts excavated decades ago by a U.S. scholar at Machu Picchu. State newspaper El Peruano said yesterday that the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A burial chamber in Peru containing mummies and artifacts. . While installing new gas lines just beneath the busy streets of Lima, ...