Mass Human Sacrifice Unearthed in Peru - From the New Scientist, ancient sacrificed remains of 200 fishermen have been excavated from a beach in Peru. - http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn2885
Colca Valley Regional Survey - This site describes the in-progress activities and preliminary findings of a systematic archaeological survey of the central portion of the Colca Valley and surrounding uplands of southern Peru - http://www.vanderbilt.edu/wernke/Colca_Survey.html
First City in the New World? - From Smithsonian Magazine, excavations at Peru's Caral site suggest cities appeared in the Americas 1,000 years earlier than experts believed. - http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/issues/2002/august/firstcity.php
Projet Ychsma - Ychsma Project - This site describes the ongoing Ychsma Project, led by Peter Eeckhout, which has carried out archaeological field research at the site of Pachacamac, Peru. - http://www.ulb.ac.be/philo/ychsma/
Pachacamac Archaeological Project - This site describes the ongoing archaeological research project at the site of Pachacamac, the precolumbian religious center, led by Izumi Shimada, Rafael Segura and Maria Rostworowski - http://www.pachacamac.net
Five Mummified Skulls Found in Peru Mail - From Guardian Unlimited, Peruvian customs agents opening suspicious packages found five ancient skulls from a pre-Inca culture that someone tried to mail to California - http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?sid=212705&nid=105&template=print
Buena Vista Archaeological Project - University of Missouri - Provides a background of field work conducted in Chillon Valley, Peru. Includes images from 2003 and 2004 excavations and a profile of the project director. - http://web.missouri.edu/~nad2b1/BuenaVista/Home.htm
Inca Wall Falls for 'Archaeologist' Hotel - ABC News includes a brief article about destruction of an ancient wall in Cusco. - http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200309/s946275.htm
The Ruins on the Inca Trail - Brief notes on the main archaeological sites: Llaqtapata, Runkuraqay, Sayaqmarka, Inca Tunnel, Phuyupatamarka, Intipata, Wiñawayna, Intipunku, Machu Picchu. With photographs. - http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/inca/ruins1.html
Paloma World - An interactive tour of the Paloma site in western Peru, including a virtual dig and excavation databases. - http://coas.missouri.edu/paloma/INDEX.HTML
Ancient Desert Markings Imaged From Orbit - Visible from ESA's Proba spacecraft 600 kilometres away in space are the largest of the many Nasca Lines; ancient desert markings now at risk from human encroachment as well as flood events feared to be increasing in frequency. - http://www.esa.int/export/esaSA/SEMO0R1PGQD_earth_0.html
Ancient Inca Road in Desperate Need of Protection - A preliminary study of the ancient highland road that linked the Inca Empire from southern Colombia to Central Chile, found that only 5 percent of the 8,500 km route is under some form of protection, and large sections of it have been lost entirely. - http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-09/ci-air090903.php
Jewelry Repatriated - Precolumbian gold and turquoise jewelry once for sale at Sotheby's has been returned to Peru. - http://www.archaeology.org/9609/newsbriefs/sipan.html
Archaeology of Peru - Site centers on the archaeology of complex societies in Latin America and Andean South America and focuses upon the study of how the Tiwanaku civilization expanded from the lake Titicaca region to control much of the southern Andes. - http://weber.ucsd.edu/~psgoldst
Mummy Trove Found in Peru - From BBC, archaeologists discover thousands of mummies in a Lima shanty town dating from the last decades of the Inca civilization. - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1936023.stm
Inca Mummies - From National Geographic, images, articles, and links. - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/inca/
Inca's stone fitting - A theory on how the Incas could have efficiently cut a stone (still on the ground) to fit perfectlty in a hole in a wall under construction - http://indra.com/~davide/IncaWalls/Index.html
Inca Trail and Machu Picchu - A virtual tour of the Inca Trail, complete with photographs and an interactive map. - http://www.raingod.com/angus/Gallery/Photos/SouthAmerica/Peru/IncaTrail.html
NOVA : Ice Mummies of the Inca - NOVA Online presents an expedition to Peru in search of Incan mummies on Mt. Sara Sara. - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/peru/
Save Ollanta - The famous Inca settlement of Ollantaytambo, Peru, is in imminent danger from a new highway project that would destroy Inca agricultural terraces. - http://www.cuscoperu.com/save_ollanta/
Inside the Royal Tombs of the Moche - Moche ruins are located in river valleys of Northern Peru. These centers flourished until c.1000 C.E., when the Moche abruptly vanished. - http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/proj/anthro/asb222/articles/article8.html
Ice Treasures of the Inca - National Geographic's interactive expedition up Mount Ampato, Peru, with Johan Reinhard. - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/96/mummy/index.html
Huacas del Sol y la Luna, Moche Culture - Located in the lower to mid valley, on the left bank of the Moche river on a plain below the imposing Cerro Blanco. - http://www.huacas.com/
Chachapoya - Warriors of the Clouds - Pictures, text excerpts, and advertisement by Keith Muscutt, author of a book on the ancient Chachapoya of Peru. - http://chachapoyas.com/