(credit: Sican National Museum) Archaeologists recently unearthed an unusual tomb in a temple complex at the Huaca Las Ventanas archaeological site near Lambaeque, in northern Peru. The site belonged to the Sican culture, one of the several complex societies that flourished prior to the rise of the Inca Empire (around 1400 CE) in northern Peru. […]
Enlarge / Scarlet macaws (credit: Abul Az Abu Jamil) Centuries ago, indigenous South Americans brought live parrots hundreds of kilometers across the Andes Mountains, then raised them in captivity in the Atacama Desert, according to a recent study. The Atacama is one of the last places you’d look for tropical parrots. It’s the world’s driest […]
Expand / The kitty is attracted from the negative, with its head turned toward the viewer. (charge: Johny Isla through AP) Employees in the Nazca Lines website lately discovered that the faded, partly eroded overview of a cat extending across a desert hillside. The cat combines the ever-growing collection of roughly 900 contours and graphics […]