The fossilized remains of a giant pelican-like bird dating back some 35 million years have been uncovered in Peru’s Ica desert, paleontologists said Friday. Klaus Honninger, who heads the team that made the find, said the bird resembled a giant pelican that stood more than two meters (6.6 feet) tall dating from the Oligocene epoch. [...]
Archaeologists unveiled an aquatic tomb in northern Peru on Tuesday they say belongs to an important noble from the Lambayeque culture who was buried here in the 12th or 13th centuries A.D. The tomb was discovered at an archaeological site about 8 miles west of the city of Chiclayo on Peru’s northern coast. The figure, [...]
Researchers at the Chotuna-Chornancap archaeological digs near the Peruvian city of Chiclayo have found the funerary remains of a woman who was a priestess of the Lambayeque or Sican culture, the project director, Carlos Wester La Torre, told Efe. The preliminary conclusion of physical anthropologist Mario Millones is that this was a woman between 25-30 [...]
Over the past few weeks, 3000 dolphins have washed up on the beaches of Peru which is puzzling and greatly troubling, but it’s when scientists investigated that the mystery has grown exponentially as it was discovered that the dolphins had inner-ear injuries. Such injuries are brought on by “acoustic impact” which gives this mystery a [...]
A group of Peruvian archaeologists found a 1,500-year-old altar for human sacrifices on the top of a hill in the northern region of La Libertad, the daily El Comercio reported Tuesday. The structure is located 3,250 feet high on Campana Hill and was cut by the Moche culture into a rock at the site with [...]
Skull has soft spot, found in infants, yet also two large molars, found in older humans. Three anthropologists agree: ‘It is not a human being´… A mummified elongated skull found in Peru could finally prove the existence of aliens. The strangely shaped head – almost as big as its 50cm (20in) body – has baffled [...]
An ancient ceremonial ground used by a Pre-Columbian civilisation for human sacrifices has been uncovered on Peru’s northern coast, archaeologists said on Thursday. The discovery appears to reinforce prevailing theories about a ceremony known as “the presentation” that was carried out by the Moche people, an agricultural civilisation that flourished between 100 BC and 800 [...]
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