Around 5,000 years ago, members of an ancient Peruvian Indigenous group buried an elite member of their society: They wrapped ...

The Trump administration sent the mother of a 2-year-old to Venezuela and the father to a Salvadoran prison. Their daughter ...

While excavating the ancient fishing village of Áspero in western Peru, archaeologists uncovered a grave from the Caral ...

Deforestation in the Amazon is closing in around isolated communities, many of which lack official recognition by governments ...

The woman—with skin, hair and nails still intact—belonged to the little-known Caral civilization, which flourished in Peru ...

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The mummy was found in Aspero, a sacred site within the city of Caral that was a garbage dump for over 30 years until ...

Thor Heyerdahl and five crew members began a trip from Peru to Polynesia on the Kon-Tiki, a raft made of balsa logs.

Pope Francis's modest tomb drew massive queues on the first day of public viewing in Rome on Sunday, a day after an estimated ...

On the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, Cothrum looks back at what went wrong and the brave service members ...

World leaders and Catholic faithful bade farewell to Pope Francis in a funeral Saturday that highlighted his concern for people on the "most peripheral of the peripheries" and reflected his wishes as ...