Peru Archive
Archaeology
AncientPages.com - There are still many ancient secrets hidden in Peru’s rainforest. Many places are difficult to access due to the vegetation and archaeological expeditions often face struggles to
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Located in the Andes on the border of Bolivia and Peru, Lake Titicaca is not only a beautiful spot on this planet, but also
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Using sophisticated 3D technology and skull of an ancient mummy, scientists have successfully reconstructed the face of queen Lady Cao who ruled in Peru about 1,700 years
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Ancient city of Pisac in the Sacred Valley, Peru is not as famous as Machu Picchu, but it’s a remarkable place that is not
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Archaeology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - During excavations conducted in Peru's Nepeña Valley in the 1960s, archaeologists discovered an artificial mound or pyramid with a crater at the top.
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Peru have discovered traces of an ancient civilization inhabited by humans nearly 15,000 years ago during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene ages. The
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Two 18th century ‘Collata Quipu’ artifacts preserved in a wooden box by elders of the region located in San Juan de Collata, in the province of Huarochiri, Peru may offer clues
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Sacsayhuamán is undoubtedly one of the most impressive and mysterious fortresses of the Andes. The stonework of Sacsayhuamán was created by extremely skilled stonemasons and we
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Is the mysterious Chinchorro culture related to an ancient unknown Atacama Desert civilization? What can new studies reveal about the world’s oldest mummies? The
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On This Day In History
AncientPages.com - On December 9, 1824, the Battle of Ayacucho was fought on the high plateau near Ayacucho, Peru. It was one of the Latin-American wars of independence, and
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Temple of the Condor in Machu Picchu is spectacular and one of many examples of extraordinary Inca stonemasonry. It is also one of
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - There are many wonderful places to see in Peru, a land rich in history and filled with beauty. Most people have heard of
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Sayhuite is an intriguing ancient site in Peru. Was it once an ancient city inhabited by an unknown civilization? The site located on top
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have unearthed several ancient tombs in San José de Moro, a ceremonial center of pre-Columbian Moche civilization on the northern coast of Peru. These findings are
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Illapa (aka Apu Illapu, Ilyap'a, Katoylla) is considered by many as one of the most important deities in the Inca pantheon. Staty av Pachacutiq
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - According to Inca mythology, the Inca are the direct descendants of a mythical first Inca, named Manco Capac, who emerged from one of
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Featured Stories
AncientPages.com - Peru is a country rich in history that spans several millennia. Known as the heart of the Inca Empire, Peru was also home to many other
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Oral Inca traditions tell of a magical kingdom hidden deep in the Amazon jungle, east of the Andes area of Cusco, Peru. This
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Strange ancient domed structures, commonly called “beehive tombs,” also known as Tholos tombs, have been found in many places around the world. What is
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - High in the Andes Mountains of Peru, the Inca built a dazzling empire that governed 12 million people. They had no writing system,
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists say they have discovered tombs that are more than 1,000 years old in a pyramid-shaped cemetery in the midst of Peru's capital, Lima. "There are four
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Places
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Hidden deep in the Peruvian Amazon is a remarkable enormous face carved into stone cliffs. The “Face Of The Amarakarei“ has been there
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPage.com - A giant mysterious figure, world-renowned under the name "Candelabrum" can be seen from as far as 12 miles out to sea. The Candelabra
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - One of the major forces, which influenced the rise and fall of agrarian states in Mexico and Peru was climate variability, according to researchers a new
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Ancient Mysteries
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Marcahuasi is an eerie place related to many legends and unbelievable stories about mysterious subterranean chambers, sightings of balls of light or even encounters
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Ancient Technology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Moray or Muray (in Quechua) is an archaeological site in Peru approximately 50 km (31 mi) northwest of Cuzco on a high plateau
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Ancient Symbols
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - This time our quest for the hidden history of mankind takes us to Peru where we encounter an enigmatic inscription that offers evidence Sumerians
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Cahuachi - once the capital of the Nazca culture and a major ceremonial center from the period 450 BC- 450 AD - is
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Artifacts
AncientPages.com - Unfortunately, conventional archaeology refers to these very controversial, ancient 'out of place artifacts' as 'ritual objects'. Not much is known about the mysterious bronze gears discovered in
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Ancient Technology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists and other scientists have been scratching their heads trying to figure out how remarkable ancient Peruvian structures like Sacsayhuamán were constructed. These marvelous
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Ancient Technology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Wari culture not only extended the irrigation systems already existing in Peru but also were the first using a terraced field technology and
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - A highly thought-provoking theory has been put forward by a researcher who is suggesting that the fabulous Sacsayhuamán temple in Peru might contain
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Ancient Mysteries
AncientPages.com - There are many amazing stone structures at Sacsayhuamán, a walled complex on the northern outskirts of the city of Cusco, Peru. This entire ancient site is remarkable
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Ancient Mysteries
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Thousands of years ago, our ancestors lifted stones that our gigantic modern machinery could hardly move and put in place. Did they have the
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Archaeology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Chachapoyas culture left many sarcophagi in their land in the Amazon region of Peru. The Chachapoyas were the original inhabitants of the
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Located in in the Andes on the border of Peru and Bolivia, Lake Titicaca is the largest lake in South America. There are many tales about the
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Thousand of years old animal-shaped mounds have been discovered in Peru. Like the Nazca lines, which include a series of giant animal outlines drawn on the ground
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