B efore the Spanish conquest of Peru, ... and a network of roads from village to village were engineering feats of their time. ... → 800-year-old wooden contraption unearthed in Germany.

They have agriculture and village life that did just fine without pottery.” Peruvian researcher Ruth Shady began excavations in 1996, said Haas, but was hampered by a lack of funding.

Estimated to be about 5,000 years old, the temple walls are made from smashed mud, archaeologists said. The site was dated to the Formative Period, some 5,000 years ago. Peru Ministry of Culture ...

China’s own Chinalco has built a new town in Peru to relocate more than 5,000 people currently living in crumbling Morococha, a century-old mining village, in order to expand its operations.

A discovery in a 1,100-year-old Wari outpost suggests that powerful, communal intoxicants may have helped foster alliances. ... a Wari village in southern Peru, ...