By Juan José Pacheco Ibarra UNMSM Historian How did the ancient people of Lima celebrate Christmas? In the 19th century, Christmas was a true religious holiday, very different from the one we celebrate now. Christmas was the central celebration of a series of activities that lasted throughout the
Around 1465, before Christopher Columbus arrived in America (1492), the then hatun auqui (conquering prince) Túpac Yupanqui –who would later become the tenth ruler of the Inca civilization– undertook an expedition to the current islands of Polynesia –one of the sub regions of Oceania–. The mission p
On October 21, 1934, LA PRENSA of Buenos Aires was kind enough to host my first article on its pages, on the discovery I made of the Mochicas ideographic writing system. To verify this theory, of a revolutionary nature, I have already compiled thousands of archaeological documents, which have contri
In those societies where individuals are immersed in a regime of social relations with differential access to the means of production, it is understood that such differentiation is associated with a given property regime and, therefore, requires an instance of power that is capable of guaranteeing t