The largest internet company, Google, through its Arts & Culture application, announced the launch and enabling of a virtual visit through its platforms to Chankillo, the oldest solar observatory in ...

A new discovery in the Casma desert once again sheds light on the complex nature of power in the first civilizations of the Americas. The Ministry of Culture of Peru, acting through the Executing Unit ...

The ministry says the find reinforces interpretations of the oldest solar observatory in America as a stage for military disputes and elite power legitimization. Peru’s Ministry of Culture announced ...

Archeologists from Yale and the University of Leicester have identified an ancient solar observatory at Chankillo, Peru, as the oldest in the Americas with alignments covering the entire solar year, ...

Chankillo in Peru features 13 stone towers built in 250 to 200 BC that functioned as a calendar by marking the rising and setting arcs of the sun The oldest solar observatory in the Americas has been ...

Studying the sun, moon, and stars was obviously a more complex endeavor in the ancient world than it is now, but thanks to a fresh discovery at an already famous astrological site on the north-central ...

Archeologists from Yale and the University of Leicester have identified an ancient solar observatory at Chankillo, Peru as the oldest in the Americas with alignments covering the entire solar year, ...

When Ivan Ghezzi first visited the ancient Peruvian settlement of Chankillo 6 years ago, the world was reeling from 9/11. It seemed appropriate to view the site, already famous for its thick walls, ...

New Haven, Conn. — Archeologists from Yale and the University of Leicester have identified an ancient solar observatory at Chankillo, Peru as the oldest in the Americas with alignments covering the ...