The Oldest Gold of Americas: 4,100 Years Old
	Now, you can find out how old the American obsession for gold is. A new research published in the "Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences" reveals it: a 4,100-year-old nine-bead Peruvian necklace represents the oldest known gold artifact in the Americas. The artifact was discovered in a burial pit near Lake Titicaca, associated with an adult jawbone. The previously oldest known gold artifacts in Americas came a ... [read more >>]
	01 April 2008, 04:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Peru Teachers Get OLPC Computer Training
	The One Laptop Per Child charity foundation is heading towards the Peru villages this week in order to offer notebook training for the teachers from remote rural villages. The organization will set up training centers in a few regional cities, where teachers will meet the green, rugged XO notebooks. Teachers will be the first to receive technical information and training regarding the inexpensive ultra-mobile computers as par ... [read more >>]
	28 March 2008, 20:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Mysteries of the Peruvian Meteorite
	You might not know this, but in September 2007 a meteorite entered the Earth's atmosphere and eventually reached the ground in a countryside area in Peru, where it formed a small crater, right in front of the eyes of the people living nearby. And this occurred although most of the space rocks hitting our planet usually burn into the atmosphere long before reaching the ground, at altitudes from 50 to 70 kilometers above the ground.[ADM ... [read more >>]
	12 March 2008, 03:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Newly Found Peruvian Pyramids Belong to a Mysterious Civilization
	The history of Peru involves more than the Inca civilization. Pyramid remains have been found at Piura (on the northern Peruvian coast), by construction crews, in January. Now, a team from the Peruvian National Institute of Culture (INC) has announced that the site, 2 mi (3.2 km) long and 1 mi (1.6 km) wide, belonged to the ancient Vicús, a pre-Hispanic civilization that inhabited that coastal desert from 200 B.C to 300 A.D. As ... [read more >>]
	21 February 2008, 05:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Lice from Mummies Track Down Human Migration
	They may be nasty, but these parasites are intimately bound to humans and may tell a lot of our past. They can only live on humans and die rapidly out of their human hosts, unable to parasitize any other animal. Head lice collected from 1,000-year-old Peruvian mummies clearly point that they accompanied humans during their first migration out of Africa, 100,000 years ago. A DNA analysis published in the "Journal of Infec ... [read more >>]
	07 February 2008, 02:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

OLPC Mission Takes Off to Peru
	Shortly after the OLPC patent infringement scandal, the Peruvian government ordered 260,000 XO laptops to be introduced in the educational system. Things have moved fast for the Peruvian government, as they have posted their request just a month after the One Laptop Per Child ... [read more >>]
	03 December 2007, 04:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Oldest Construction in America
	The pre-Columbian America had two centers where complex civilizations developed: Mexico and Peru. At that time sophisticated cities and huge pyramidal temples were built. Now, a Peruvian team seems to have discovered the oldest mural ever found in the Americas, close to the Peruvian coast, at the Ventarrón site, in Lambayeque valley, about 800 km(500 mi) north of Lima. Carbon dating effectuated in US revealed the ancient wall was 4,000 yea ... [read more >>]
	13 November 2007, 02:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Hacker Broke Into Chilean President's Website
	The Chilean presidency was almost shocked on Monday when some officials tried to access the official website and instead of seeing their content, they loaded the official flag of Peru. In addition, a large message was attached: "Long live Peru," it read according to the Associated Press. The authorities acknowledged that they were hacked and took the website down in order to republish the original content and remove the ... [read more >>]
	06 November 2007, 10:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Head Hunters Replaced Real Heads with Ceramic Heads
	Being light-headed was brought to the extremes by ancient Peruvians. A decapitated skeleton discovered in a tomb of Nasca, the ancient civilization that bloomed in southern Peru from A.D. 1 till 750, offers more explanations about this civilization of head hunters. People belonging to this civilization are famous for being the authors of the giant "Nasca lines" in the earth that depict figures only visible from the sky and ... [read more >>]
	07 June 2007, 02:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Head-Squashing for Keeping Power
	Ancient Peruvians may have been a sophisticated society, possessing advanced astronomical knowledge, but like many pre-Columbian societies, such as Maya and Aztec, their power was based on the tactic of scaring their neighbors, by using cruel rites. New archaeological finds suggest that aristocrats dismembered their less well-off neighbors as a scare tactic. Recent diggings discovered several deformed corpses at the burial ... [read more >>]
	29 March 2007, 03:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia