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

The deputy secretary of the Peruvian Bishops’ Conference said he is “sure that the heart of Pope Leo XIV ... will greatly ...

The belief dates from a time before the Inca Empire - between 500 and 1000 ... In light of the new research, El Cono could join the growing list of ancient structures that are the subject of ...

Other names used to describe this type of medicine ... and this practice is considered to have African, Aztec, Mayan, Inca, Sephardic, Catholic and magical-religious influences.

Trying to determine the right time to visit Peru is challenging. If you have glanced at a map, noted the proximity of the ...

Those accounts claim that the Inca sacrificed hundreds of children upon ... the mass sacrifice in a desperate attempt to persuade the gods to stop the rain and the chaos. “This number of ...

In the 2012 reconstruction of this 1947 adventure, six amateur Scandinavian sailors—five of whom are tall, slim and valiant—build a replica of an ancient pre-Incan raft, christen it Kon-Tiki ...

The 2025 Sistine Chapel conclave came with heightened security arrangements, a reminder of just how the conservative ethos of ...

His first dealer, Theo van Gogh (brother of Vincent), suggested that Gauguin’s work was hard to sell because he was “half Inca, half European ... rituals and gods had already disappeared ...

Robert Francis Prevost, chosen as the new leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Roman Catholics and who has taken the papal name ...