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Workers digging at the foundation of a Peruvian home to install a new set of water pipes came across the oldest known sloth fossil in history. The animal was found buried together with a massive armadillo, which was estimated to be about the same age as the peaceful herbivorous mammal. Initial estimates say that the ... |
26 May 2009
03:57 GMT |
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The Nazca lines are huge, intricate geoglyphs, built directly into the ground of the Nazca Desert, in modern-day Peru. The arid stretch of land is 80 kilometers (50 miles) long, and houses a myriad of intricate drawings, visible only from the air and satellite, which has prompted the question as to what created them,... |
26 January 2009
09:53 GMT |
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The Ancient Pre-Columbian Society of the Supe, which reigned supremely in a part of modern-day Peru in a period of time stretching from approximately 3000 to 1800 BC, is now believed to have been annihilated by a devastating series of natural disasters, including earthquakes and massive floods, which forced the popul... |
20 January 2009
03:53 GMT |
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Peru once again proves the fact that it is an archaeological El Dorado, one of the few places where ancient scientific treasures lie beneath the ground, waiting to be found. Its hundreds of archaeological sites reveal the legacy of old cultures that existed thousands of years ago, spanning many cultures, such as the ... |
17 December 2008
10:56 GMT |
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A new study performed by Dolores Piperno, a staff scientist from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and the National Museum of Natural History, in collaboration with Tom Dillehay, an archeology professor at Vanderbilt University, focused on analyzing teeth of ancient Peruvians. The research was aimed at dete... |
2 December 2008
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Last week a team of anthropologists and uncontacted tribe experts revealed a series of images showing what is considered to be one of the one hundred or so uncontacted tribes currently living around the world. The pictures were taken during a flight over the tropical jungle located near the border between Brazil and ... |
3 June 2008
05:20 GMT |
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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 Titi... |
1 April 2008
04:52 GMT |
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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 ... |
28 March 2008
20:46 GMT |
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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 ... |
12 March 2008
03:49 GMT |
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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, belonge... |
21 February 2008
05:30 GMT |
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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... |
7 February 2008
02:48 GMT |
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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 charity went into mass production. In Nov... |
3 December 2007
04:16 GMT |
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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 L... |
13 November 2007
02:54 GMT |
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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 ... |
6 November 2007
10:14 GMT |
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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 ... |
7 June 2007
02:46 GMT |
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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 ... |
29 March 2007
03:32 GMT |
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