Around two thousand years ago, the Moche people built a society that was probably the first real state structure in the whole of South America. It developed in the narrow strip of almost desert ...

The research, released on Monday in the journal PNAS, showed that the Moche people, who lived in Peru 1,500 years ago, sacrificed related family members, including adolescents, upon another family ...

An archaeological site has yielded further evidence that a matriarch once commanded the ancient Moche civilization on Peru's northwest coast. The pillared room unearthed at the Panamarca ...