More than 2,000 years older than the oldest Egyptian mummy, the world's earliest known intentionally preserved mummies are on display in Santiago, Chile.
Mexican devotees honor the folk saint Santa Muerte—a scythe-carrying skeleton—each month, though the Catholic Church links the saint to black magic and Satanism.
Vast swathes of "pristine" Amazon rain forest may have been sophisticated "garden cities" prior to the arrival of European colonists, anthropologists say.
The rare pre-Inca mummy was masked and entombed with a child sacrifice. Found near high-rises in Lima, the tomb is one of the few known unlooted Wari burials.
An "exquisitely carved" statue of Roman leader Marcus Aurelius, with lion-skin boots and a feathery beard, has been discovered in an artifact-rich site in Turkey.
Forty thousand costumed revelers took to the streets in Tokushima, Japan, where some dancers emulate "drunken fools" in remembrance of a sake-infused 15th-century celebration.
The world's oldest intact mummy wore the hides of herd beasts, not wild animals, says a new study that suggests the Iceman lived in a pastoral-agricultural society.
Corruption is rife throughout water industries worldwide, forcing the poor to pay more for basic drinking water and sanitation services, a new report says.
Amazonian Indians have blocked roads and oil and gas projects in Peru to protest a new law that makes it easier for the government to sell their lands.
