Lawmakers defiantly chewed coca in Peru's Congress on Thursday while criticizing a U.N. recommendation to criminalize traditional uses of the plant ( Read more... )

It's the return of the mummies for one Peruvian museum. On January 11 the Museum of the Nation in Lima opened to the public a collection of Incan and Chachapoya Indian remains (such as the one seen here at a preview) from between A.D. 900 and 1500 ( Read more... )

Even in ancient Peru, it seems dogs were a man's best friend. Peruvian investigators have discovered a pre-Columbian culture of dog lovers who built pet cemeteries and buried their pets with warm blankets and even treats for the afterlife ( Read more... )

By DAN KEANE, Associated Press Writer ( Read more... )

A female mummy with complex tattoos on her arms has been found in a ceremonial burial site in Peru, the National Geographic Society reported Tuesday ( Read more... )

Nicholas Bakalar, for National Geographic News, March 2, 2006

An ancient culture in southern Peru cultivated corn some 4,000 years ago, about a thousand years earlier than previously believed, a new study suggests.Researchers excavating a site in the Andean highland town of Waynuna found both corn leaf and corncob remains in the ruins of a house ( Read more... )

Peru says it will take legal action to recover thousands of artefacts from the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu which are held by Yale University in the US ( Read more... )

By CARL HARTMAN, Associated Press Writer ( Read more... )

LIMA, Peru (AP) -- Peru has formally warned Yale University that it will be sued if relics taken from Machu Picchu by famed U.S. explorer Hiram Bingham nearly a century ago are not returned, the Foreign Ministry said Friday.

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I didn't see this posted yet:

Ancient Peruvian society used irrigation canals (there's a picture with the original article)
Last Updated Tue, 29 Nov 2005 18:08:48 EST
CBC News

The discovery of canals in the Peruvian Andes shows early civilization there had irrigation technology for intensive agriculture, anthropologists say.

Using irrigation to ( Read more... )