Ancient practices hold important lessons for farmers facing drying lands. But they were often more complex than modern ...

Some 500 years ago, the Chimú in what is now Peru ritually killed hundreds of ... reveal the outline of a tiny burial pit cut into an ancient layer of mud. Two college students—archaeologists ...

Two teenagers who were strangled 1,500 years ago as part of an ancient Andean ... people belonged to the Moche culture, which flourished along the north coast of Peru from A.D. 300 to 950.

where these countries that have a great ancient past build their identity through this past and it becomes part of their present. So the past of Peru will be its future, and eventually the Moche ...

They had a lot of ancient injuries consistent with ... So the past of Peru will be its future. And eventually the Moche will, I think, become a household name, just as much as the Maya or the ...

Reviewed Work: 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by MannCharles C. Aveni, Anthony. Between the Lines. The Mystery of the Giant Ground Drawings of Ancient Nasca, Peru. Austin: ...

Pañamarca is a “monumental center” built by the ancient Moche culture who flourished “in the coastal valleys of northern Peru between about 350 and 850” A.D., archaeologists said.

As part of his doctoral dissertation, he is exploring, on the one hand, ritual practices and ceremonialism of the ancient Moche of the North coast of Peru (200 – 800 AD) and on the other, the ...

A trio of painted, unfired-clay figurines has come to light at the coastal site of Vichama in what is now Peru. The three may represent powerful people in an offshoot of the ancient Caral culture.

Located on the northern coast of present-day Peru, about 480 km north of Lima in the Moche valley, between the Pacific Ocean and the city of Trujillo, the World Heritage site “Chan Chan Archaeological ...