The oldest evidence of psychoactive plant use was found in the Andes, revealing how societies used mind-altering drugs to ...

A TOWERING mountain that rises suddenly from the flat Amazon rainforest is cloaked in mystery. Cerro el Cono, the steep ...

The 1,310ft-tall peak shoots up from Sierra del Divisor National Park in eastern Peru, near the border with Brazil. Its shape is strikingly similar to the pyramids of Giza - with broad, flat sides ...

They tell you the sixties are the new thirties but if you’re a man nearer seventy on a bus that hasn’t got a toilet in Peru, it doesn’t ...

A strange pyramid-shaped peak in Peru is shrouded in mystery, mainly because this geographic marvel is so hard to reach.

In the empire’s heyday, Machu Picchu teemed with ... those who persisted in the old beliefs and practices. Still, the Inca legends survived, molded into the shapes of ceramics, woven into ...

“I did not have a lot of money,” he told me, “so I had to make my living there.” He became a teacher. He built a house. He and his wife had children. That rare experience of joining the community, he ...

Archaeologists in Peru have discovered a 2,500-year-old secret drug room filled with hollowed-out bird bones containing ...