The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian and the Embassy of Peru present Kaypi Perú, a festival highlighting the South American nation’s rich and diverse cultural heritage and ...

Machu Picchu might be Peru's most famous tourist destination, but the Inca ruins are just one of many cherished historical sites that have survived since ancient times, along with countless precious ...

Completing a project to repatriate human remains held in the Vatican Museums' ethnological collection, the Vatican and the government of Peru signed an agreement Oct. 17 to return to Peru three ...

CUSCO, Peru -- Three new museums in Peru will enrich client itineraries. The Pre-Columbian Art Museum in Cusco has 11 galleries housing 450 pre-Columbian artifacts that date from 1250 B.C. to 1532.

A mural inside the LUM depicting an Indigenous woman (photo Tim Brinkhof/Hyperallergic) LIMA, Peru — Wedged between the prosperous neighborhoods of San Isidro and Miraflores, Lima’s Lugar de la ...

Over 40 remarkable objects - some dating from over 3,000 years ago - will come to the British Museum in London from nine museums across Peru. Most of them have never travelled to the UK before. They ...

The most popular museum in Peru, the Gold Museum (Museo del Oro) in Lima, is at the heart of an argument which is stirring archaeologists the world over, but is also stirring the Peruvian government.

Peruvian Foreign Minister César Landa Arroyo, center, and Cardinal Fernando Vérgez Alzaga, president of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State, look at the mummies that will be returned to ...