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 ...

The Mapuches, Chile’s biggest Indigenous group, have endured centuries of battle. Now the Mapuches, who make up roughly 12% of Chile’s 19 million people, fear a more violent chapter in their history ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Three masked vandals on Friday night vandalized the Bikur Holim synagogue in Santiago, Chile. The suspects hung a sign protesting Israel's war in Gaza on the synagogue's wall, spray-painted red paint ...

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 ...