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Phat found a mass grave of mummies
Archeology

Phat found a mass grave of mummies

Archaeologists of the Brussels Free University in Belgium found the tomb containing about 80 remains of remains in the ruins of Pachacamac, near Peru's capital, Lima. Th…

December 17, 2018
Discovered the last Inca emperor
Archeology

Discovered the last Inca emperor

Since 2010, a group of researchers led by Tamara Estupinan historian surveyed the area of ​​Sigchos, located 80km from Quito, the capital of Ecuador. They reported findi…

December 17, 2018
Peru exhibits more than 200 ancient mummies
Archeology

Peru exhibits more than 200 ancient mummies

Museum Leymebamba, Peru has just exhibited more than 200 mummies from Chachapoyas culture. The show took place last Saturday. Chachapoyas is a tribe living in the Amazon…

December 17, 2018
Civilization rises due to climate change
Archeology

Civilization rises due to climate change

Inca construction, war art and farming techniques make the whole world admire for thousands of years. But they will not have such achievements if the climate does not be…

December 17, 2018
Detected 33 mummies 600 years old
Archeology

Detected 33 mummies 600 years old

Archaeologists have discovered 33 mummies of the Incas in northern Peru, believed to have been killed to sacrifice gods about 600 years ago.

December 17, 2018
Inca brain surgery of the form of
Archeology

Inca brain surgery of the form of

According to a new study, ancient Peruvian Inca surgeons often succeeded in removing a small portion of the patient's skull to treat head injuries.

December 17, 2018
Display mummy 500 year old virgin
Archeology

Display mummy 500 year old virgin

Hundreds of people flocked to the Salta Museum, Argentina, to admire the mummy of a 15-year-old Inca girl who was dropped from a volcano as a sacrifice 500 years ago.

December 17, 2018
Discovered ancient corpses in America
Archeology

Discovered ancient corpses in America

Peruvian archaeologists for the first time discovered the bones of the Incas killed by bullets during the period when the country was invaded by Spain. This is the first…

December 17, 2018
The inscriptions of the Incas are hidden in knots
Archeology

The inscriptions of the Incas are hidden in knots

More than 500 years before the advent of computers, the Incas living in the Andes (Peru) invented a 7-bit binary code to store information, and represent them with knott…

December 17, 2018
A pair of gay penguins had eggs to hatch
Animal world

A pair of gay penguins had eggs to hatch

A pair of gay penguins at the Madrid Zoo have just received an egg for them to take care of after 6 spring nesting together and still nothing in the nest. Inca and Rayas…

December 16, 2018