This painted penguin pot is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. It was made about 1,600 years ago and was collected in Peru in the late 19th century. The multicolored ceramic vessel is ...

In a land where rain rarely falls and the desert stretches to the sea, a penguin once waddled into the imagination of an ...

A whale and a pair of hands drawings etched on soil, part of the geoglyphs known as the Nazca Lines, are visible in the desert of Nazca, Peru, June 7, 2025. Credit: AP/Martin Mejia ...

The Nazca Lines, a group of hundreds of mysterious geoglyphs etched into the desert in Peru, have mystified scientists for nearly a century. People from ancient civilizations made the drawings ...

Peru’s decision to shrink its archeological park home to the famous Nazca Lines by around 42% — an area roughly the size of 1,400 soccer fields — has sparked alarm among conservationists ...