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Earthquake in Peru - You can help!
As you all may know, the earthquake that hit 2 days ago the city of Pisco, in Peru, has left about 500 persons dead, over 1,500 injured and thousands without a home. Pisco is a small fishermen town about 3 1/2 hours from Lima, the capital city. These hard working people have been left homeless and shocked with grief, having to identify their children among the bodies piling up at the Main Plaza.
Temple built 4,000 years ago unearthed in Peru
LIMA (Reuters) - A 4,000-year-old temple filled with murals has been unearthed on the northern coast of Peru, making it one of the oldest finds in the Americas, a leading archaeologist said on Saturday. The temple, inside a larger ruin, includes a staircase that leads up to an altar used for fire worship at a site scientists have called Ventarron, said Peruvian archaeologist Walter Alva, who led the dig. It sits in the Lambayeque valley, near the ancient Sipan complex that Alva unearthed in the 1980s.Uncontacted tribe photographed near Brazil-Peru border
SOURCE: Survival - The Movement for Tribal Peoples
Members of one of the world’s last uncontacted tribes have been spotted and photographed from the air near the Brazil-Peru border. The photos were taken during several flights over one of the remotest parts of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil’s Acre state.
‘We did the overflight to show their houses, to show they are there, to show they exist,’ said uncontacted tribes expert José Carlos dos Reis Meirelles Júnior.
PERU: Solar observatory dates back 2,300 years
Source: Science News - May 2007
PERU'S SUNNY VIEW: SOLAR OBSERVATORY DATES BACK 2,300 YEARS
By Ron Cowen
When Ivan Ghezzi first visited the ancient Peruvian settlement of Chankillo 6 years ago, the world was reeling from 9/11. It seemed appropriate to view the site, already famous for its thick walls, parapets, and restricted gates, solely as a fortress. Ghezzi, then a Yale University graduate student, had in fact received a grant to investigate just that possibility at the 2,300-year-old coastal-desert site.
Earthquake in Peru Yesterday
There was a horrible earthquake in Peru last night. It reached 7.9 in the Richter scale and the city near its epicenter, Pisco, has been nearly destroyed. The communications haven't been restablished yet, over 300 ppl are dead and homeless, and the highways have collapsed.Peru Bans Homosexuals from Police Force
By Dan Collyns BBC News, Lima Peru has announced that it will ban homosexuals from the police force for damaging the image of the institution.The law is one of several new regulations put forward by the Interior Minister, Mercedes Cabanillas.Ms Cabanillas is trying to shake up the institution, which has a dismal reputation among the general public. But critics say some of the new laws, especially those regarding sexual orientation or activity, are unconstitutional. The law states that any police officer who has sexual relations with someone of the same gender will be indefinitely suspended from the police force.Inca Skull Rewrites History of Conquest
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/19/AR2007061901929.html The 500-year-old skull, found in a long-forgotten Inca cemetery outside Lima, Peru, had two round holes just across from each other. Nearby was a plug of bone, recovered intact, that carried the distinct markings of an old musket ball. Archaeologists sensed they had unearthed an important find, but it wasn't until months later that a powerful electron microscope scan confirmed it by finding traces of lead in the skull.The Nazca Lines
Source: http://tinyurl.com/2rtvkp
Nazca Lines, Ica - Peru
The Nazca Lines are located in the Pampa region of Peru, the desolate plain of the Peruvian coast which comprises the Pampas of San Jose (Jumana), Socos, El Ingenio and others in the province of Nasca, which is 400 Km. South of Lima, covers an area of approximately 450 km2, of sandy desert as well as the slopes of the contours of the Andes.
The Monkey
They cover nearly 400 square miles of desert.
Kuelap, an unknown empire
Sources:
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuelap
Kuelap Peru http://www.kuelapperu.com/
Inka Natura http://www.inkanatura.com/kuelap_chachapoyas.asp
Kuelap
The fortress of Kuelap (or Cuélap), associated with the Chachapoyas culture, consists of massive exterior stone walls containing more than four hundred buildings. The structure, situated on a ridge overlooking the Utcubamba Valley in northern Peru, is roughly 600 meters in length and 110 meters in width. It was likely built to defend against the Huari or other hostile peoples.
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