THE OLDEST LIVING CITY IN THE AMERICAS. THIS IS CUSCO, PERU, THE CAPITAL OF THE INCAN EMPIRE. IT’S ALIVE AND IT’S UP THERE AT 11,000FT. THE ELEVATION IS MORE THAN TWICE AS HIGH AS DENVER. BUT ...
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This Ancient High-Status Woman Was Buried With a Parrot-Feather Cape and a Beaded Toucan’s Beak in Modern-Day Peru
Around 5,000 years ago, members of an ancient Peruvian Indigenous group buried an elite member of their society: They wrapped her body in layers of cloth, woven plants and colorful macaw feathers, and ...
The famed “Band of Holes” known as Monte Sierpe in the Andes of Peru have puzzled scientists for a century. New research suggests the holes were the site of an ancient marketplace. The Inca rulers may ...
Archaeologists Believe They’ve Identified Who Created Thousands of Holes in Peru ...
LIMA (Reuters) -A small sculpture of two toads, and other water-linked symbols found near the Peruvian city of Caral - once the oldest city on the continent - have helped archaeologists confirm that ...
An archaeological site that used to be a garbage dump has revealed the extraordinarily preserved mummy of an elite woman from the ancient Caral civilization of Peru. The woman was buried with luxury ...
Officials said the ancient city of Kuélap is the most important archaeological site in northeastern Peru. Photo by Peru's Ministry of Culture. High up in the mountains of Peru’s Amazonas region, in ...
Chachapoyas means “cloud forest” or “people of the clouds.” It refers to a pre-Incan civilization found in northern Peru. And when you’re standing atop the ancient Kuélap Fortress—at an elevation of ...
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