Extend your itinerary beyond Peru’s classic sights to discover ancient temples, mermaid-cursed waterfalls and some of the ...

For years, researchers have questioned who created the “band of holes” site in Peru. A new study suggests it was an ancient marketplace.

Researchers bundled in down jackets toiled around the clock in these snowy tunnels as a massive drill rig churned downward to extract core samples and the secrets they contain from the deepest ...

The largest museum of its kind in the Middle East opens today with an awe-inspiring dinosaur wing, a massive blue whale ...

National Geographic photographer Brian Skerry has been diving in the Gulf of Maine for more than 40 years. After learning these waters were a harbinger of climate change, he set out to document the ...

Pura Vida,” describes the essence of Costa Rica and the pride of its people. It’s a feeling, too, that visitors can discover ...

New research published in Antiquity reveals the first scientific evidence that Peru’s puzzling “Band of Holes” — once ...

New research suggests the Band of Holes functioned as a barter marketplace before becoming an accounting system for the Inca ...

The Peruvian Andes have long concealed a mystery: a 1.5-kilometer stretch of 5,200 precisely carved holes etched into the ...

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