When Christopher Donnan began studying the art created by Peru’s Moche culture more than 50 years ago, he wasn’t sure how much it reflected ancient reality. From about A.D. 200 to 850 ...

Warfare, warriors and prisoners are a recurring theme in Moche art. They testify to the violent ... where these countries that have a great ancient past build their identity through this past ...

Archaeologists have revealed evidence of a never-before-seen sacrifice of family members belonging to the ancient Andean ...

Recently studied murals suggest a powerful female leader once ruled the Moche.

The discovery challenged the belief that only men held high positions in ancient Moche society. Peru's minister of Culture, Salvador del Solar, said the reconstruction had revealed an oval face ...

Harvard University-led researchers investigated an elite Moche burial group at Huaca Cao ... Investigators extracted and sequenced ancient DNA from the teeth and bones of all six individuals.