Pre-Incan tomb with 1,000-year-old remains unearthed in Peru
Utility workers excavating trenches to expand an underground gas network in the capital of Peru unearthed two pre-Incan tombs.
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Utility workers excavating trenches to expand an underground gas network in the capital of Peru unearthed two pre-Incan tombs.
Hundreds of new species across the globe were identified by scientists in 2024.
Archaeologists say the discovery could shed light on early religious practices in the region.
A federal grand jury indicted a couple who kidnapped their grandchild from Sacramento to Peru in 2021, prosecutors said Thursday.
The 68-year-old Peruvian woman was eating pork rinds when the object became lodged and she threw up blood.
A self-describe "UFOlogist" brought the desiccated figures in front of the Mexican congress last September, claiming they had been recovered near Peru's ancient Nazca Lines and dated over 700 years old.
A newly studied species of ancient whale might be the heaviest animal ever found.
Joran van der Sloot has been transferred temporarily into U.S. custody from a Peruvian prison, where he's serving a 28-year sentence for another woman's murder.
One of the researchers who found the frog said his immediate reaction was "Bloody hell!"
Van der Sloot, a Dutch national from Aruba, is currently serving a 28-year sentence in Peru for the murder of a different woman.
The child would have lived about 800 years ago, and could have belonged to the Lima or Ichma civilizations, archeologists said.
Traffic accidents are common along Peru's narrow roadways and steep cliffs.
Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo, wanted in his home country in connection with Latin America's biggest graft scandal, was arrested in California on suspicion of public intoxication and spent the night in jail before being released Monday, authorities said.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced Thursday that a woman wanted for killing her husband, then burying his body in Nevada, has been arrested in Peru.
Jennifer Neal told CBS13 Tuesday that her sister, sister of Jamie Neal and Jamie's boyfriend, Garrett Hand, have been found located and are fine.
The search is on for a bay area couple who appears to be missing in South America while on the bike trip of a lifetime. One of those people used to live in Sacramento.
