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Peru gets back more than 80 artifacts from Argentina
Argentina returned 84 ancient artifacts to Peru on Tuesday at an event where they were received by Peter Camino, the Peruvian ambassador to Argentina. The items belonged to pre-Columbian societies like the Moche, Chimu, Nazca, Inca, Vicus, and Chancay, according to Andina news agency. Argentina’s Culture Minister Pablo Avelluto hosted an event Tuesday where he gave the artifacts, some of which are estimated to be 2,000 years old, to Camino. The ancient items, which included pottery materials, were believed to have been smuggled from Peru to Argentina before being confiscated by the Argentinean government. At the ceremony, the officials highlighted the […]Read more...
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Ancient cemetery from the Mochica culture discovered in Chiclayo
An ancient burial ground that is presumed to have belonged to the Mochica culture (800 – 1000 AD) was discovered at an archaeological dig site in Chiclayo this week. Édgar Bracamonte Lévano of the Valle de Lambayeque Archaeological Project announced the findings of 32 graves that were adorned with decorations and spiritual offerings. “The importance of the cemetery is evident by the number of tombs and their density, also the number of banquets that were given,” the lead archaeologist told Andina news agency. Twenty-three of the graves are from the Mochica culture and nine could stem from the Lambayeque culture that lasted until […]Read more...
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Lima restaurant Maido named best in Latin America once again
Chef Mitsuharu ‘Micha’ Tsumura’s restaurant Maido was named the best restaurant in Latin America for the second consecutive year by the esteemed World’s 50 Best Restaurants publication. Maido was joined in the top two by fellow Lima restaurant Central. The choices were announced at a Tuesday event in Bogotá, Colombia where Latin America’s 50 best restaurants were named. “We love what we do and, not just at work, but overall when someone has fun and does things with love then I think they turn out well,” Tsumura told a group of reporters at the event. Maido’s decorated history is due […]Read more...
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Costumbres pisco wins gold prize at National Pisco Festival in Peru
The best piscos that Peru has to offer were on display at the 24th annual National Pisco Competition. This weekend’s National Pisco Festival began on Friday and the prizes for the best pisco in the country were handed out during a ceremony that same day. Arequpia’s own Rico Corporation, which makes the pisco brand Costumbres, won the gold prize at Friday’s hotly contested awards show. Some 300 piscos have been on display at the festival, which concludes today from the Plaza Municipal de Barranco in Lima. Peru’s Production Minister Raúl Pérez-Reyes said the yearly event is an important reminder of how integral […]Read more...
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Pair of 3,000 year old sites dug up in Cusco
Peru’s immense wealth of buried artifacts has been more evident than ever this week. Just a few days after an important discovery at the Chan Chan Ruins, Peruvian archaeologists announced that they unearthed a pair of sites in Cusco that could date back 3,000 years. The recent excavations came at the Marcavalle site in the middle of Cusco where researchers say they found a teenage boy was buried just 40 centimeters underground, among other discoveries at the two sites. The body was found surrounded by stones and with a gold plate near its head that was used as some sort of ornament. […]Read more...
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Pre-Columbian statues found in the Chan Chan Ruins
Archaeologists discovered 19 different statues at Peru’s Chan Chan Ruins, the largest pre-Columbian era dig site in the Americas. Each of the statues is expected to be more than 750 years old, according to the Ministry of Culture. The statues came from the Chimu Kingdom, which preceded the Incan Empire. The 19 stone structures each measure about 27.5 inches (or 70 centimeters) when they were found at the Utz An, the palace of the Chimu Kingdom. https://twitter.com/MinCulturaPe/status/1055121054471983105 The discovered statues have different masks adorning them on the front and a shield-like circular object on their backs. Some even have swords in […]Read more...
