Peru anti-fraud and corruption authorities seized nearly 15 tons of fake medicine, valued at approximately 100,000 soles, or $35,000.
The operation, conducted June 11 in three different stores located on Paruro Street in Lima’s city center but made known only this week, yielded nearly 15 tons of fake and possibly lethal medicine, , Police Col. Pedro […]

UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee requested reinforced monitoring Thursday for Peru’s Inca citadel of Machu Picchu — the country’s top tourist attraction — expressing grave concern over the governance of the site and imminent risks of landslides, fires and deforestation.
The ruins, which narrowly escaped being added to the list of endangered World Heritage sites after environmental […]

The National Geographic Society insists Yale University turn over to Peru all artifacts taken from Machu Picchu by American historian Hiram Bingham nearly a century ago.
Though Yale recognized Peru’s title to the artifacts by signing a memorandum of understanding last September, negotiations are now stalled as Machu Picchu’s centennial “discovery” anniversary looms ahead.
“We were […]

Peru’s Foreign Minister has turned film critic, urging Peruvians to avoid seeing Stephen Spielberg’s latest blockbuster “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”… or was it “the Kingdom of the Geographically Challenged?”
“You shouldn’t see it,” José García Belaunde said in comments to CPN Radio on Thursday, which were widely reported in Peru’s newspapers […]

Peruvian archaeologists have uncovered skeletal remains of three people ritually sacrificed and buried in blood-stained sands around 4,000 years ago at the Bandurria archaeological ruins on Peru’s central Pacific coast, the research leader told Peruvian Times on Monday.
“It is the first time that such a violent human sacrifice has been reported,” San Marcos Univerisity archaeologist […]

The top representative of UNESCO in Lima said Sunday that Peru was well within its rights to demand Yale University return tens of thousands of artifacts and remains taken on loan nearly a century ago from the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, official state news agency Andina reported.
“The logical thing is for Peruvians to have […]

A Bolivian anthropologist is appealing to his government to put the breaks on development of floating reed tourism attractions that replicate Peru’s Uros Islands on Lake Titicaca.
Manuel Rojas Boyan asked Bolivia to respect the ancient traditions of the Uros civilization, telling Peruvian daily El Comercio that he believes it is unacceptable to exploit a millenary […]

Archaeologists from the National Institute of Culture have reportedly uncovered three irrigation channels that confirm the existence of an advanced hydraulic system in the Sacsayhuaman fortress located on the periphery of the former Inca capital of Cusco. According to Agencia Andina, the irrigation system was designed by Inca Pachacútec, who ruled the Inca empire from […]

Archaeologists have reportedly uncovered remains of buildings in the Sacsayhuamán fortress overlooking the former Inca capital of Cusco which could be structures described in the Comentarios Reales de los Incas, an important chronicle of the Inca empire written by the first mesitzo writer of colonial Andean South America, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega.
The base of […]

The director of Peru’s National Institute of Culture, INC, in Huánuco Department says possible flooding of the Higueras River due to heavy rains threatens to damage the Kotosh archaeological temple, considered one of the oldest temples in the Americas. Carlos Ortega told Agencia Andina there is a high risk the side of the archaeological temple […]