Archaeologists in Peru announced they found the 5,000-year-old remains of a noblewoman at the sacred city of Caral, in an area which for decades was used as a garbage dump. The new discovery ...

Archaeologists have found the remains of an elite woman who was buried with a variety of remarkable grave goods.

Archaeologists in Peru announced they found the 5,000-year-old remains of a noblewoman at the sacred city of Caral, in an area which for decades was used as a garbage dump. The new discovery ...

Excavations at the fishing settlement of Áspero are yielding some of the best looks yet at the Caral civilization, an Andean society established around the same time as the rise of ancient Egypt.

Buried for five millennia and forgotten beneath what was once a coastal dump, the tomb of a powerful woman from Peru’s ancient Caral civilization has just resurfaced—and it’s rewriting the ...

Archaeologists have discovered an exquisite ancient burial of an elite woman belonging to the Caral Civilization. © Peru Ministry of Culture Roughly around the same ...

She lived at a time when a culture known as the Caral civilization flourished in the area. It was known for its sizable towns and cities and is named after the archaeological site of Caral (also ...