Researchers in Peru have considerably expanded the known footprint of Gran Pajatén, a pre-Hispanic settlement of the ...

In May 2025, the World Monuments Fund (WMF) astonished the world by announcing a bombshell archaeological discovery at Gran ...

Researchers uncovered over 100 previously unknown buildings at Gran Pajatén, a hilltop archaeological site in northern Peru.

Built by the Chachapoya civilisation, known as the “people of the cloud forest”, the structures are located within a Unesco ...

Archaeologists uncover more than 100 hidden structures at Peru’s Gran Pajatén, revealing the site’s role in the Chachapoya ...

Peru's cloud forests are some of the most biologically diverse ecosystems in the world. A profusion of tree and plant species as well as one third of Peru's mammal, bird and frog species make ...

The sky is pitch-black and the hum of insects the only sound in the cloud forest. My guide ... For my first solo trip to Peru, I wanted to explore new terrain. Like many Peruvians, Marisol ...

We’re going monkey hunting in Peru’s Manú National Park—a huge ... down through moss-draped cloud forest to the lowland rain forest of the westernmost Amazon Basin. It’s a sumptuous ...

Waterfall in the Kosñipata valley. Image credit: Rhett A. Butler A creek in the cloud forest of Peru’s Kosñipata valley. Image credit: Rhett A. Butler The Cloud Catchers For many the Amazon ...

Scientists walking through the forest in Peru found the calling creature — and discovered a new species. Researchers were on a “slow” walk through the trails of a cloud forest in Junín that ...

When you mention Peru, most people think of the Andes or perhaps the Amazon, which covers most of the country, or, of course, Machu Picchu, the Inca citadel located in a cloud forest where the ...