Bolivia to build museum at bottom of 'sacred lake'
Bolivia is to build an underwater museum in its sacred Lake Titicaca, the culture minister said.
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Genetics of the modern heirs of the Inca shed new light on their origins and lineages
A multinational South American team from Peru, Brasil and Bolivia led by the Universidad de San Martin de Porres at Lima, Peru, published the first genetic study on the modern descendants of the imperial Inca lineages in ...
Archaeology
Apr 6, 2018
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Human societies evolve along similar paths
Societies ranging from ancient Rome and the Inca empire to modern Britain and China have evolved along similar paths, a huge new study shows.
Social Sciences
Dec 18, 2017
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Genetics preserves traces of ancient resistance to Inca rule
The Chachapoyas region was conquered by the Inca Empire in the late 15th century. Knowledge of the fate of the local population has been based largely on Inca oral histories, written down only decades later after the Spanish ...
Archaeology
Dec 12, 2017
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Peru's abundant ruins feel the squeeze of urbanization
From her small home near two golf courses and three slums, Gianina Rojas gazes up at a crumbling adobe pyramid, remnants of the vast Inca empire that flourished more than six centuries ago.
Archaeology
Nov 28, 2017
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Using ancient DNA, researchers unravel the mystery of Machu Picchu
Dramatically perched on an Andes mountain ridge some 8,000 feet above sea level in Peru, Machu Picchu is a visual wonder and a technical masterpiece.
Archaeology
Oct 1, 2015
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Peruvian dig reveals sacrificial mystery
Tulane University physical anthropologist John Verano has spent summers in Peru for the last 30 years, digging for ancient bones and solving their secrets. But his most recent work focuses on a unique archeological discovery: ...
Archaeology
Oct 29, 2014
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Wari, predecessors of the Inca, used restraint to reshape human landscape
The Wari, a complex civilization that preceded the Inca empire in pre-Columbia America, didn't rule solely by pillage, plunder and iron-fisted bureaucracy, a Dartmouth study finds. Instead, they started out by creating loosely ...
Archaeology
Oct 16, 2013
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440-year-old document sheds new light on native population decline under Spanish colonial rule
Analysis of a 440-year-old document reveals new details about native population decline in the heartland of the Inca Empire following Spanish conquest in the 16th century.
Archaeology
May 19, 2011
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Ancient Peruvian site forces experts to re-think past
Archeologists have discovered a group of ancient tombs in the mountainous jungle of southeastern Peru they say is as important as the discovery of the lost city of Machu Picchu.
Archaeology
Feb 25, 2011
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