2004-05-16 04:00:00 PDT Cuzco , Peru-- It was just a sparkle on the horizon, where the sun hit what appeared to be a flat plain on an otherwise steep, untamed mountain in the Peruvian Andes. But Peter ...

LIMA, Peru — Although the top tourist destination in Peru is the ancient Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, high in the Andes Mountains, the capital Lima also holds a treasure trove of ancient ruins — so ...

Throughout their history of poverty and political turmoil, Peruvians have been fiercely proud of their elaborate, spicy food and new superstar chefs are now a magnet for culinary tourists. Lima used ...

According to an Associated Press story: LIMA, Peru -- Archaeologists say they've discovered the ruins of what is believed to be Peru's oldest Roman Catholic church. The church outside the northern ...

A valley between Leymebamba and Chachapoyas. Over the past few decades, Peru has been trying to weightily designate a number of its archaeological sites as “the next Machu Picchu,” after the famed ...

Literally "old mountain" in Quechua, Peru's dominant indigenous language, Machu Picchu is built into peaks more than 2,400 meters above sea level in southern Peru, where the Andes and the Amazon Basin ...

LIMA, Peru – From her small home near two golf courses and three slums, Gianina Rojas gazes up at a crumbling adobe pyramid, remnants of the vast Inca empire that flourished more than six centuries ...

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) aren’t just being used by the CIA to track terrorists in Yemen. Archeologists from Vanderbilt University are now using the sophisticated flying drones to map ...

Five days after mudslides crippled roads and rail access near the Machu Picchu ruins in the mountains of southern Peru, more than 1,000 people had been evacuated by helicopter, but hundreds more ...

An unusual archaeological site discovered in Peru’s mountains may hold clues to the history of the Chachapoya people, known as “cloud warriors,” who fought the Inca Empire before the Spanish conquest.

John Verano's role in tonight's (February 2) cool "Ghosts of Machu Picchu" technically is that of a spoiler, both in the TV sense and in the scientific sense. But both "Nova" and "Frontline" are going ...

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