A graduate of Columbia College took part in the dig, which found evidence that female leaders in ancient Peru had more ...

An analysis of previous sacrifices at the same site suggests the victims were conquered people brought to work on the land.

Archaeology students discovered the mummy during a dig in Lima Archaeologists in Peru conducting a dig at the site of a rubbish dump in the capital Lima have found a mummy they think is around ...

Lima, Peru - Recent Despite being separated by vast oceans and thousands of years, the ancient civilizations of China and ...

Here, at this off-the-beaten-path archaeological site about 120 miles north of Peru’s modern-day capital of Lima, my own family — alongside just a trickle of determined tourists — has made ...

Archaeologists in Peru have discovered a 1,300-year-old ... This throne room, found at the archaeological site of Pañamarca, dates to the seventh century A.D., when the Moche were thriving ...

By Alan Yuhas Archaeologists in Peru have excavated a monumental ... the priestesses of San José de Moro. Image The archaeological site of Pañamarca has shed light on the ancient Moche ...

The discovery was made in Pañamarca, a religious site in Peru. It was once the hub of ... Lisa Trever, a professor of art history and archaeology at Columbia University and one of the Pañamarca ...

Nothing this big, this old, had ever been excavated in Peru ... began surveying sites for excavation, the Meggers view had already begun to crumble under the weight of fresh archaeological ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a throne room and detailed wall paintings indicating that a woman likely ruled Moche society in Peru over 1,300 years ago. An archaeological site has yielded further ...