Peruvian firefighters were fighting to contain a forest fire near the Incan ruins of Machu Picchu as the blaze threatened to close in on the ancient city in the Andean mountains on Thursday. The fire, which had engulfed an area about half the size of Vatican City, was started on Tuesday by farmers burning grass […]
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Archaeologists unearth mummy estimated to be at least 800 years old in Peru | Peru
A team of experts has found a mummy estimated to be at least 800 years old on Peru’s central coast, one of the archaeologists who participated in the excavation said. The mummified remains were of a person from the culture that developed between the coast and mountains of the South American country. The mummy, whose […]
Stonehenge on ‘most threatened’ world wonders list
Britain’s failure to deal with road traffic around the prehistoric stone circle is condemned as ‘a national disgrace’ The traffic-choked roads still roaring past Stonehenge in Wiltshire have earned the world’s most famous prehistoric monument a place on a list of the world’s most threatened sites. The government’s decision to abandon, on cost grounds, a plan to […]
Largest known child sacrifice site discovered in Peru
Researchers believe the 140 children were sacrificed 550 years ago by the Chimú civilisation as floods ravaged the coastline Archaeologists in northern Peru say they have found evidence of what could be the world’s largest single case of child sacrifice. The burial site, known as Las Llamas, contains the skeletons of 140 children who were aged between […]