In the coastal desert of Peru, a line of stone towers has reappeared from beneath windblown sand, reviving a site that may be ...

The largest internet company, Google, through its Arts & Culture application, announced the launch and enabling of a virtual visit through its platforms to Chankillo, the oldest solar observatory in ...

The Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex is a prehistoric site (250-200 BC), located on the north-central coast of Peru, in the Casma Valley, comprising a set of constructions in a desert landscape ...

A new discovery in the Casma desert once again sheds light on the complex nature of power in the first civilizations of the Americas. The Ministry of Culture of Peru, acting through the Executing Unit ...

At 2,300 years old, Chankillo observatory has been described as one of the oldest of its kind in the world — and the oldest in the Americas. It is a construction of 13 stone towers built atop a hill, ...

Archeologists have solved the mystery of the Thirteen Towers, a line of low stone structures that have spanned an arid Peruvian slope like a massive set of prehistoric teeth for 2,400 years. The ...

The oldest solar observatory in the Americas has been discovered in coastal Peru, archaeologists announced today. The 2,300-year-old ceremonial complex featured the Towers of Chankillo, 13 towers ...

Nearby what was thought to be the oldest known astrological observatory in the Western Hemisphere, archaeologists discovered one even older. The site in the Casma Valley of Peru could be centuries ...