The Pañamarca archaeological site in north-central Peru may have been under excavation for 70 years, but it continues to bear discoveries that illuminate the rituals and customs of the Moche, a ...

Archaeologists in Peru have discovered the first known painted throne room of a powerful Moche woman. Dated to the 7th century, the throne room is one of two pillared halls excavated this year at the ...

In 1997, a Moche cemetery was looted at the town of Masanca, in the lower Jequetepeque Valley of northern Peru. Subsequently, a salvage excavation of what remained of this cemetery produced a sample ...

In its most recent field season, the Archaeological Landscapes of Pañamarca (Paisajes Arqueológicos de Pañamarca) research project discovered unprecedented painted architecture at the site. The ...

MOCHE, Peru—One Sunday afternoon this month, Edson Padilla’s family was visiting this country’s archaeologically rich northern coast and stopped at the latest attraction—a 9-foot-tall statue of an ...

Archaeologists in northern Peru say they have discovered human remains and a wealth of artefacts in the tomb of a nobleman who belonged to the ancient Moche Indian culture that flourished in the ...

After a four-year search that enlisted the help of 10 students and a local shaman, Swiss archeologist Sâm Ghavami has rediscovered a 100-foot-long pre-Hispanic mural in northern Peru. Dating back ...

Two chambers discovered in Peru may reveal new insights about the political rituals of the ancient Moche civilization, which ruled on the country's desert coast around 1,500 years ago. The chamber ...

Some 1,200 years ago, a prominent Moche woman was laid to rest with great pomp and ceremony. Now archaeologists have uncovered her tomb along with clues that testify to her privileged status and the ...

LIMA, PERU—Reuters reports that two chambers thought to have been used for elite Moche political ceremonies some 1,500 years ago have been found at the Limon archaeological complex in Lambayeque.

An archaeologist working at a site along the north coast of Peru recently discovered a cooking pot carefully buried under a house floor. The simple, well-used pot contained portions of a llama's face ...