Archaeologists have long thought that monumental architecture—large, human-built structures that emphasize visibility—were products of societies with power structures, including social hierarchy, ...

The Tiwanaku civilization was one of the first and most powerful in the Andes region, but by 1000 A.D., it had collapsed.

Near the top of a mountain in the Peruvian Andes is a small lake named Laguna McIntyre. This is the source of the Amazon River, so named for the National Geographic photographer, writer, and ...

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In the Andes mountain range, the structure is visible from a distance of up to 250 miles (400 kilometers) on clear days. Because of its remote location, Cerro El Cono's origins have remained a mystery ...

The mighty Incan empire wasn’t the first society to spread across the Andes Mountains—2,000 years earlier, there were the Chavín. Although their own name for themselves remains unknown, the ...

Cerro El Cono is a solitary, pyramidal hill in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest whose origins remain mysterious and that holds spiritual significance for Indigenous people.

Scott Wallace, a New Hartford native and former O-D reporter, will lecture on his new book on Central American civil wars at Munson on March 29.

Her journey ends deep in the Amazon, where she connects with the Achuar tribe, ... This geologic collision also produced a secondary mountain chain within Ecuador's Andes.

The White Mountain Apache Tribe appears to have the second-highest number of cases among Arizona tribes, only behind the Navajo Nation, which spans more than 27,000 square miles in three states.

High in the Andes Mountains of Argentina and Chile, mining companies are scouring the landscape to look for copper, gold, lithium and cobalt deposits, among other lucrative ores. Most of these metals ...