The snow petrel, a strikingly white bird with black eyes and a black bill, is one of only three bird species ever observed at ...

Discover the ancient Waru Waru agricultural system, an innovative farming technique spread across the Peruvian highlands that ...

Sitting in low Earth orbit, the International Space Station offers astronauts aboard some spectacular views, including this ...

This ancient city in modern-day Bolivia is almost 13,000 feet above sea level. Only a small portion of the ruins have been ...

The Tiwanaku civilization thrived high in the Andes Mountains long before the Inca Empire started. Located near Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, the millennia-old city of Tiwanaku was built almost 13,000 ...

Peru draws tourists eager to explore the remnants of South America’s ancient civilisations. There’s much to uncover in this ...

An ancient temple hidden in Bolivia’s highlands is reshaping how archaeologists understand the Tiwanaku civilization, a ...

Ruins of the Palaspata temple complex from the millennia-old Tiwanaku civilization are unraveling some mysteries about the ...

A temple bigger than a city block was hiding in plain sight for over 1,000 years.

Archaeologists have long thought that monumental architecture — large, human-built structures that emphasize visibility — were products of societies with power structures, including social hierarchy, ...

The Atacama Desert of Chile is largely considered the driest place on Earth, but recently saw the moon-like landscape ...