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Contact with 'Lost' Amazonian Indians May Be Inevitable

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

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 Titi...

1 April 2008
04:52 GMT

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 ...

28 March 2008
20:46 GMT

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 ...

12 March 2008
03:49 GMT

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, belonge...

21 February 2008
05:30 GMT

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...

7 February 2008
02:48 GMT

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 charity went into mass production. In Nov...

3 December 2007
04:16 GMT

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 L...

13 November 2007
02:54 GMT

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 ...

6 November 2007
10:14 GMT

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 ...

7 June 2007
02:46 GMT

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 ...

29 March 2007
03:32 GMT




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