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Between September 6 and 11, two ancient sites of Inca ruins from Machu Picchu were threatened by a huge forest fire, which was eventually put off. More than eight hundred hectares of forest in the valley situated between Cuzco city and the ancient Machu Picchu fortress burned, causing great damage to the pair of... |
25 September 2008
09:20 GMT |
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One of the most developed pre-Columbian civilizations was the Inca empire, stretching through the highlands of Andes, in today's Ecuador, Peru, south Columbia, western Bolivia and northwest Argentina. The Inca civilization was outstanding because of its colossal architecture, its cities with paved and regular st... |
14 May 2008
16:41 GMT |
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A 2007 poll in which 100 million people participated included the Inca city of Machu Picchu amongst the world's new 7 wonders. Machu Picchu is shrouded in mystery, situated as it is on the top of the Andes at 4,000 m (13,300 ft) altitude. At the same time, it could have been an astronomic observatory and religio... |
24 April 2008
09:49 GMT |
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Just like the Aztecs, the Inca empire had only one century to flourish. The empire was built around the city capital of Cuzco. The Incas conquered and assimilated their neighboring populations so that, at the arrival of the Spaniards, their empire had about 12 million inhabitants, speaking 20 different languages and ... |
20 February 2008
14:06 GMT |
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In 1527, starting from Panama, a handful of Spaniards led by Francisco Pizarro managed to conquer the largest empire a pre-Columbian civilization ever created. The empire of Incas stretched through the highlands of Andes, in today's Ecuador, Peru, south Columbia, western Bolivia and northwest Argentina and it nu... |
16 February 2008
05:26 GMT |
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Lake Titicaca is located at an altitude of 3,812 m (12,700 ft) in the Altiplano, a high altitude plateau in the central Andes, about 72 km (44 miles) west of La Paz, Bolivia. The lake is located at the border between Peru and Bolivia and its name means "The lake of the puma" in the Aymara language. It has a surface o... |
16 February 2008
03:27 GMT |
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The lost city of Paititi fueled the imagination of many adventurers and explorers along the centuries, and more recently that of tourists. The legend says that Paititi was built by the Inca hero Inkarri, founder of Cusco before retreating into the jungle following the Inca empire conquest by Spaniards, in the 16th c... |
17 January 2008
03:27 GMT |
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The gods asked for their sacrifice in the Andes mountains, and now the Inca children represent one of the best naturally cold preserved mummies. DNA and isotope analyses made by a team led by Andrew Wilson of the University of Bradford in England on the hair samples taken from 4 Inca children mummies and small bags a... |
2 October 2007
05:11 GMT |
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This is like finding the tomb of Jesus: archaeologists have discovered the oldest gunshot victim amongst Native Americans, nearly 500 years old. "We didn't expect it. We saw this skull and saw the almost round hole and thought people must have been shooting around here recently. But the skull was ancient, and a ... |
20 June 2007
08:42 GMT |
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Another week, another look at a mini-game that can keep you busy during a boring rainy-afternoon with nothing to do, or who knows, keep you company when an internet connection doesn't work how it's supposed to.Question. What is the most addictive game genre? Mahjong? Shooter? Quest? The answer is pretty sim... |
26 May 2007
03:15 GMT |
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When Columbus made his first steps on the American ground (or better said, Caribbean), his mind was set on an El Dorado, a realm of gold and silver riches. And indeed, they soon discovered two El Dorados: the Inca and the Aztec Empires. In 1532, Incas paid to Pizzaro, the conquistador of their empire, a ransom consi... |
21 April 2007
06:23 GMT |
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The glory and the decadence of the mighty civilizations could now be tracked by ... dung! A French-British-American team has found a method to assess the rise and fall the ancient Inca empire by investigating tiny mite preserved in the mud at the bottom of a sacred Peruvian lake. Counting the number of fossilized mit... |
27 March 2007
05:44 GMT |
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Researchers have discovered the oldest solar observatory in the Americas in 2,300 years old pre-Inca ruins. The authors found that the large Thirteen Towers of Chankillo (a ruin north of Lima), made of stone and positioned in a line, were employed for marking the sun's position throughout the year-an activity th... |
2 March 2007
03:00 GMT |
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