Around the World November 1, 2011
PERU
Around the World September 1, 2011
PERU
Digs & Discoveries July 1, 2011
Listening to the Gods of Ancient Peru
The ruins of the Chavìn de Huántar temple complex in the northern Andes were once the spiritual center of a culture whose influence was felt throughout the coastal valleys of most of modern-day Peru.
Digs & Discoveries May 1, 2011
Peru’s Mummy Bundles
More than a thousand years ago, an adult and three small children were buried high atop Huaca Pucllana, a ceremonial complex in the center of what is now the modern city of Lima, Peru.
Around the World May/June 2024
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Around the World March 1, 2011
PERU
Acoustic scientists have resurrected the ancient, booming sound of decorated shell trumpets from Chaví n de Huántar by playing the 2,500-year-old pre-Inca instruments.
Features January/February 2012
A Society’s Sacrifice
Why the Chimú people of ancient Peru offered what was most valuable to them
Features January 1, 2011
Early Pyramids – Jaen, Peru
Peru's towering burial mounds, with their underground chambers and layers upon layers of history, had long been thought to be a distinctive feature of the country's arid coast.
Around the World January 1, 2011
PERU
Some of the tattoos on a 1,000-year-old female Chiribayan mummy might have been more than decoration.
