LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. officials have repatriated 16 cultural items to the Peruvian government, including paintings, historical documents and stone axes. The FBI returned the items to representatives ...

PERU — A project began this fall to carefully clean veterans’ grave stones in Peru’s 18 cemeteries. Dave Douglass Jr.’s company As Remembered LLC in Topsham was hired by the town in early October to ...

Peru's Ministry of Culture announced this week that archaeologists have discovered a stone at the Inkawasi archaeological site with 13 angles — one more than the country's famed 12-Angle Stone, the ...

The Incas built well. Though they never invented the wheel, they contrived to haul huge blocks of stone, often weighing 20 tons or more, to the mountain peaks they favored for their citadels. The ...

Roberto Román has always loved stone. Growing up in Ayacucho, Peru, he was surrounded by the region’s ancient quarries and dreamed of one day being a stonecutter. “Eventually, life led me to work at a ...

Hundreds of years after it was precisely carved and placed into a wall, a stone has been found in Peru that could undermine the country's famous 12 Angle Stone. Researchers say the stone is part of "a ...

Archaeologists found two 500-year-old quarries in the Cañete mountains and a trail network used during the final stage of the Inca empire, photos show. Photo from Qhapaq Ñan Project Atop some ...

Anthologists working in the northern Peruvian Andes have excavated a circular stone plaza, cited as one of the earliest examples of monumental megalithic architecture in the Americas. Dated back ...