Can you see the Nazca Lines from the ground?
Sprawled across the dusty desert plains of Nazca, Peru, there lies one of the most compelling and enigmatic archaeological mysteries of our modern age: a…
Peru’s leading newspaper El Comercio ran a story a few days ago about the possible link between the ancient Shang Dynasty of China (1600 BC – 1046 BC) and Peru’s ancient Chavin civilization, which emerged around 1000 BC.
[Originally published January 7, 2015] Peru’s Ministry of Culture plans to sack its resident archaeologist in Nazca and is pressing criminal charges against him for escorting a Japanese TV crew on an unauthorized ground tour of the iconic hummingbird geoglyph.
With all eyes on Peru for the second and final week of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP20), Greenpeace activists have done it again.