Archaeologists who studied an ancient brewery believe beer helped to glue together a Peruvian society which existed centuries ago. The Wari Empire is believed to be the first imperial state of South ...

High atop a mountain in southern Peru, leaders at the remote administrative center of Cerro Baúl once entertained local elites with elaborate feasts that helped sustain the Wari Empire from about A.D.

WARSAW, POLAND—Scientists led by Milosz Giersz of the University of Warsaw’s Institute of Archaeology have analyzed samples of tooth enamel and rib bone taken from some of the 64 skeletons found in a ...

This story appears in the June 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. Robert Clark has shot a lot of archaeology stories for the magazine, including several in Peru. But he calls this month’s ...