Machu Picchu might be Peru's most famous tourist destination, but the Inca ruins are just one of many cherished historical sites that have survived since ancient times, along with countless precious ...

LIMA, Peru -- The first thing that happened was, I got scammed. It was stupid, of course. But it seemed so sensible to pay the smiling uniformed man at the cruise port $10 down on a $24 taxi fare. He ...

Completing a project to repatriate human remains held in the Vatican Museums' ethnological collection, the Vatican and the government of Peru signed an agreement Oct. 17 to return to Peru three ...

This morning (7 September 2021) it was announced that a landmark loan of ancient objects will travel from Peru to the British Museum for a major new exhibition on the ancient cultures of the South ...

LAMBAYEQUE, Peru (Reuters Life!) - The newest display of Peruvian archeology opened on Thursday -- just a few feet from where the golden tomb of the Lord of Sipan, dubbed the "Tutankhamen of the ...

LIMA, Peru -- -- LIMA, Peru -- Paintings celebrating deadly bomb attacks, photographs of beheaded children and rusting homemade grenades fill a police museum dedicated to the tens of thousands of ...

A mural inside the LUM depicting an Indigenous woman (photo Tim Brinkhof/Hyperallergic) LIMA, Peru — Wedged between the prosperous neighborhoods of San Isidro and Miraflores, Lima’s Lugar de la ...

Peruvian Foreign Minister César Landa Arroyo, center, and Cardinal Fernando Vérgez Alzaga, president of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State, look at the mummies that will be returned to ...