Sacrificial llamas found buried in Peru shed light on Incan rituals Archaeologists have long known about the common practice in ancient Incan culture to use human sacrifices as offerings to the gods. But it wasn’t until recently that they’d ever found a mummified llama sacrifice — let alone four of them. According to the Guardian, …

Large 2,000-year-old cat discovered in Peru’s Nazca lines Southern Peru’s dunes, carved with the geoglyphs of a hummingbird, a monkey and an orca-a figure some would dearly love to believe is an astronaut – have now revealed the form of an enormous cat lounging across a desert hillside. During the work to increase access to one …

Giant 10-Million-Year-Old Fossil Tree in Peru Reveals Surprises About Ancient Past A lot has changed over those 10 million years to turn the area from a humid and diverse ecosystem into the more arid and sparse state that it’s in today – not least a shift in elevation from around 2,000 meters (6,562 feet) to …

The shockingly unspoiled Peruvian tomb of the Lord of Sipan, Mochican Warrior Priest In 1987, at an archaeological site in Huaca Rajada near Sipán, on the north coast of Peru, an immense complex of unplundered Moche cultural tombs was uncovered. The most famous tombs were held by the Lord de Sipán, a Mochican warrior priest …

500-Year-Old Mummy of an Incan man wearing a feather headdress found near Lima, Peru Thousands of Inca mummies, some of them bundled together in groups of up to seven, have been unearthed from an ancient cemetery under a shantytown near Lima in Peru. Believed to be the largest cemetery from one time period excavated in …

The 5,000-year-old Pyramid City of Caral Seventy thousand years ago, people lived all over South America. Six thousand years ago, people began to construct cities around pyramids, in places like Mesopotamia and China. The first of these structures in the Americas, between the Andes and the Pacific Oceans, was established 5,000 years ago. Known as …

Gigantic 2,000-Year-Old Killer Whale Geoglyph Found in Peru Desert Archeologists have rediscovered a giant geoglyph of the killer whale that has been carved to a desert hillside in the remote Palpa region of southern Peru for over fifty years. According to researchers, the 230-foot orca figure, called in ancient Peruvian soul a strong semimythical creature, …

Archaeologists find a 3,000-year-old megalithic temple in Peru A 3,000-year-old megalithic ‘water cult’ temple used for fertility rituals has been discovered in Peru by a team of Peruvian archaeologists. The religious monument is over 131ft long and is located in the springs of the Zaña Valley river about 500miles from Lima, the modern capital of …

City of Gold: The lost city of Paiтιтi may be the Most Lucrative Historical Find Many explorers have died searching for Paiтιтi: the Lost City of Gold and many became convinced that the city was hidden in the last undiscovered regions of the Amazon. The infamous journeys to discover Paiтιтi was also what inspired Sir …