Between 1849 and 1874, tens of thousands of workers who came from China to work in Peru were abusively exploited. One of sixteen 19th century Chinese immigrant burials century recently discovered at a pre-Inca site in Lima, Peru. ARCHAEOLOGY. But what were Chinese burials doing in a pre-Inca pyra
Humans settled in the southwestern Amazon and even experimented with agriculture much earlier than previously thought, according to an international team of researchers. It has long been known that complex societies arose in the Llanos de Moxos, in the southwestern Bolivian Amazon, around 2,500 yea
This particularly brutal torture ritual attributed to certain Viking warriors has often had its historicity questioned. But recent work by historians and doctors has given credit to this practice, considered exceptional but not impossible from an anatomical point of view. An excerpt from the Vikin
In the year 10 B.C. Emperor Augustus commissioned the mathematician and architect Novius Facundus to design and build a sundial in Rome, the Horologium Augusti , as a commemoration of the Roman domination of Egypt and Augustus himself born to bring peace to the world . Thus, its installation was pr