Teeth provide a wealth of information about the lives of Iron Age Italians, according to a study published in the open-access ...

The mummified remains of a man buried close to a turquoise mine in Chile's Atacama Desert suggest he was a miner who died in ...

New Zealand offers vibrant local food, iconic film locations, and great wine, making it a favored destination for travelers ...

Nabil Ali celebrates the long legacy of botanical pigments and the craft traditions that used them in a new book.

Cutting-edge LiDAR technology has revealed an astonishing secret concealed beneath the dense jungle canopy of Ecuador's Andean Chocó: hundreds of pre-Hispanic structures that dramatically expand our ...

Imagine stumbling upon an object so strange, so impossible to explain, that it throws everything you thought you knew about ...

Even with satellites and centuries of research, a few places still slip through the cracks. In a few cases, cities once ...

He works in mysterious ways.

Journey high into the Andes Mountains to discover the secrets of the ancient empire of the Inca, a civilization that rivaled the Roman Empire, yet rose and fell within 100 years. The Inca were ...

1 Independent Researcher, Reston, USA. 2 Laboratorio de Florística, Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional de San Marcos, Lima, Perú. Figure 1. Molinete ...

Jo Needham was halfway through a "bucket list" trip across South America when she was flung from her seat on a train near the ancient tourist site of Machu Picchu.

Five Australians were among hundreds of tourists evacuated following a head-on collision between two trains in Peru’s Inca ...