The past has a remarkable habit of refusing to stay in the shadows. Every year, surprise findings and archaeological ...

At Sacsayhuaman in Peru, massive megalithic walls show clear signs of extreme destruction that appear older than Inca construction. Some blocks seem split, displaced, and buried in ways that suggest a ...

A newly shared video is giving people an unusually clear look at the Mashco Piro, a rarely seen Indigenous community living in voluntary isolation deep in the Amazon rainforest. The footage has been ...

Imagine a city that thrived for thousands of years, its streets alive with workshops, markets and the laughter of children, yet that is remembered for a single night of fire. That city is Troy.

It’s hard to say if Daisy Hernández has the best timing in the world or the worst. She thought about the question one morning, in her office at Northwestern University, where she is. It was a few ...

Early into his pontificate, Francis put his finger on the scales in Peru by naming an outsider to take over the Chiclayo Diocese, a conservative stronghold. That new bishop was Robert Prevost, the ...

As the Democratic Party casts about for ways to forge a durable coalition of voters ahead of the midterms, the journalist ...

And this means we might have been thinking about the origins of syphilis in an entirely wrong way. While the French ...

From the daily newsletter: the killing of Alex Pretti has ignited a public outcry, and, perhaps, an awakening of national ...

A scandal surrounding undisclosed meetings with a Chinese businessman by Peru's acting president has shone an unflattering ...

High school students in the US often learn about Latin America through the lens of the US, as a main character that exerts ...

From galleon routes and revolution-era ties to tango halls, arnis mats, and modern trade, the Philippines and Argentina share over two centuries of surprising cultural, historical, and diplomatic ...