Seventy years on from its discovery, the Moche site of Pañamarca in northwestern Peru continues to surprise archaeologists. Excavations at the 1,600-year-old settlement picked up pace in 2018 with the ...

Resting atop a rocky outcrop in Peru’s Nepeña Valley is Pañamarca: an architectural trove built between 550 and 800 C.E. that now holds countless remnants of the Moche people. For decades, ...

The Moche are one of Peru’s best known ancient cultures who built towering cities and produced some of the most memorable art of the Americas. See how Moche culture is as complex as it is mysterious.

Archaeologists have analyzed textiles from the ancient city of Huacas de Moche, Peru, showing how the population's cultural traditions survived in the face of external influence. After the Inca, the ...

Archaeologists have revealed a new trove of painted murals within Pañamarca, a pillared hall on a rock outcrop in the lower Nepeña Valley of northern Peru. One series of murals features a two-faced ...

In 1987, at Huaca Rajada, an ancient archaeological site near Sipán on the northern coast of Peru, a desperate race against time began. A gang of looters had broken into a mound and triggered a ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Resting atop a rocky outcrop in Peru's Nepeña Valley is Pañamarca: an architectural trove built between 550 and 800 C.E. that now ...