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Skip Peru's Crowded Inca Trail To Machu Picchu For This Wildly Under-The-Radar Ancient Route

Machu Picchu will always be a bucket-list destination, but its popularity comes with drawbacks. Consider this alternative ...
Miami Herald

4,000-year-old altar — used for ceremonial burns — found near pyramid in Peru

Archaeologists excavating some 4,000-year-old ruins in Peru found a circular altar used for ceremonial burns, officials said and photos show. Photo from Peru’s Ministry of Culture At the base of an ...
Jewish Journal

Stone Temples & Tiny Explorers: A Family’s Magical Machu Picchu Odyssey

Imagine standing atop an ancient mountain fortress, your entire family’s eyes wide with wonder, mist dancing around centuries-old stone walls, and the profound silence of history around you. This ...
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Archaeologists in the Andes of Peru discovered the ruins of an ancient lost city that was part of a thriving civilization 3,500 years ago.

Archaeologists have unveiled Peñico, an ancient lost city in Peru’s northern Barranca province. Located about 120 miles north of Lima at almost 2,000 feet elevation, Peñico is finally revealed after ...
Arizona Daily Star

Graffiti scribbled on ruins of ancient ceremonial site in Peru

LIMA, Peru — Visitors are increasingly vandalizing the ruins of Peru's famed Sacsayhuaman fortress, leaving behind what authorities say is an unusual accumulation of graffiti from the likes of soccer ...