An ancient cypress in southern Chile could be more than 5,000 years old, making it the world’s most aged tree, new research finds. Known as “Great Grandfather,” the endangered alerce tree lies in a ...

GENEVA – A Swiss collector has returned four pre-Columbian mummies to Chile, including two that are believed to be up to 7,000 years old. The Swiss government says the unnamed collector agreed to ...

SANTIAGO, Chile – Chilean officials say some pre-Columbian mummies buried in the northern Atacama desert have been damaged by a magnitude-8.2 earthquake and hundreds of aftershocks that hit the ...

A palaeontologist works at the place where pterosaur fossils were found at 'Tormento' hill in the Atacama desert at Atacama region, Chile, in this undated handout photo provided by the Universidad de ...

Open air rock paintings in the world's driest desert pay testament to the importance of the llama to millennia-old cultures that traversed the inhospitable terrain. Conservationists working in Chile's ...

Thousands of years ago, early hunter-gatherers returned regularly to Tagua Tagua Lake in Chile to hunt ancient elephants and take advantage of other local resources, according to a new study.

Numerous legends of the mummy's curse are whispered in archaeological circles, most without any substance behind them, but a team of Chilean researchers may have just discovered evidence to back it up ...

An archaeologist has used satellite imagery to identify ancient hunting traps in the Andean highlands of northern Chile. Known as chacu, the large traps helped communities drive their prey into deep ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Albuquerque just got some prime exposure to an international market. A BBC Network show on historic American railroad towns just featured our city — which is music to the ...

SÃO PAULO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--To promote cultural exchange between China and Latin American countries, recent days, “A Comprehensive Collection of Ancient Chinese Paintings” Book Donation Ceremony and ...

As long as 7,000 years ago, the Chinchorro people who lived along the desert coast of what is now Chile and Peru were mummifying the bodies of those who died. But, after millennia in which the mummies ...

SANTIAGO, April 6 (Reuters) - Scientists in Chile say they have unearthed a rare cemetery with well-preserved bones of ancient flying reptiles that roamed the Andean country's Atacama desert more than ...