Around 2 billion people celebrate the birth of Jesus of Nazareth each year in Roman-occupied Palestine two millennia ago. According to the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, written between 70 and 90 years after the events, he was born to a virgin mother, was saved from being assassinated and was worshipe
Many traditions of the city of Lima disappeared or were transformed. Some affirm that all past time was better, while others will simply say that all past time was... previousMany will remember the rain of papers that was in the center of the city, when in the mornings bureaucrats windows, on their
FEATURES: After the decline of the Chavín theocratic state and the end of its cultural hegemony in the Andean area, different regional cultures emerged; New types of state were organized with characteristics that were no longer pan-Andean but regional and theocratic-militaristic. This historical per
MARIA ROSTWOROWSKI Lima before Lima By Jorge Paredes Source:El Dominical, Lima 01/16/05 One of the central contributions of the copious and revealing work of Dr. María Rostworowski has been the study and discovery of the pre-Hispanic central coast . Key books such as Curacas y sucesiones, costa nor
Francisco Pizarro and the Spaniards arrived in Pachacámac at the end of 1534. They came from Jauja looking for a place to found the capital of Peru. On January 6, 1535, a group of soldiers went to explore the Rímac Valley. A week later the expedition returned saying that they had found the perfect p
Learn about the six possible rulings on Monday, January 27, according to the Peruvian Institute of Law of the Sea.PUBLISHED:2014-01-23 -lamula.peJust four days after learning the ruling of the Court International Court of Justice in The Hague on the lawsuit presented by Peru to define the maritime b
The dispute between Chile and Peru over a maritime zone of 38,000 km2 in the Pacific Ocean, rich in fishing resources, derived from different interpretations of signed treaties. Chile has maintained the argument that the maritime boundary is a continuation of the parallel that sets the land border.
Memory of a board kick:About the next ruling in The Hague, a recount of what happened between Nicaragua and Colombia.PUBLISHED:lamula.peThree days after the ruling that the International Court of The Hague will issue on the dispute between Peru and Chile, it is pertinent to remember the previous res
ARCHITECTURE: For the construction of buildings, they used thousands of peasants who elaborated the tributary adobes. Human strength was vital to prepare and move thousands of odontoform bricks of various sizes. They built multi-story truncated pyramids with ramps and stairways leading to an upper p
Geographical Location Max Uhle This society developed in one of the most difficult areas of the national territory; of subtropical climate, arid with deserts that surround the small valleys of the department of Ica, such as Río Grande, Ica, Pisco, somewhat far from the sea. The aforementioned river
GEOGRAPHICAL SPACE It takes place in the provinces of Morropón, Ayabaca, Huancabamba in Alto Piura. At the end of the Formative or Early Horizon, the Vicús Culture developed in the northern coastal area of Peru, in the lower course of the Piura River, 7 km from the district of Chulucanas, in the p
TIAHUANACO, MAIN ANCESTOR OF THE WARI EMPIRE The Spanish chronicler Pedro Cieza de León says in his Chronicle of Peru, chapter V:Tiahuanaco is not a very large town, but it is mentioned for its large buildings, which are certainly remarkable things and to see, (...) idols of stone of the size and hu
In 1946, Wendell Bennett, in his field work in lea, noted stylistic affinities between late ceramics from Nazca and Tiahuanaco, which he called tiahuanacoid. This enigma, regarding the curious craft affinities between cultures considered unconnected in 1948, was resolved with the ceramic finds in La
1) When and where was Saint Martin born? José de San Martín was born on February 25, 1778 in the town of Nuestra Señora de los Tres Reyes Magos de Yapeyú, located on the coast of the Uruguay River, in the province of Corrientes, almost 780 kilometers from Buenos Aires. 2) How was his family made u
The discovery of the tomb of a ruler of a pre-Hispanic civilization from a millennium ago opened new perspectives on the history of ancient Peruvians, in an event described as spectacular and comparable to the discovery of the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, according to experts. Peruvian archaeologis
OVERVIEW When the political, military and economic predominance of a Pan-Andean State was interrupted for various reasons, the so-called Intermediate or Regionalization took place, a period in which no ethnic group, nation or state was able to impose its hegemony and, therefore, could not centralize
THE CHIMU NATION The Great Chimú developed on the north and central coast, from Tumbes to Carabayllo (Lima). It was a monarchical-centralist state during the reign of the Cie-quich called by the Incas Chimo Capac who came to control a tributary population of approximately 750,000 inhabitants, mostly
he was born in Piura but grew up in Paita On July 27, 1834, Don Miguel Grau Seminario was born in the city of Piura, father was Don Juan Manuel Grau and Berrío, born in Cartagena de Indias, in Colombia, of Catalan descent, who reached the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Liberation of the North Ex
Writes:Néstor PilcoContreras On May 2 of this year, a total of 39 districts from the different provinces of the Puno region celebrate their 160 years of political creation through Legislative Decree No. 12103 approved by the transitory president of Peru, Mr. Ramón Castilla y Marquesado , evoking t
LOCATION It developed in the valleys located between Lurín and Cañete, to the north; extending to lea and Nazca, to the south. Just as in ancient times, the Paracas culture served as a religious bridge between Chavín and the Titicaca culture. From the year 1200, approximately, the Chincha culture be
The indigenous culture encompasses the material and immaterial production of countless different peoples throughout Brazil. It is important to point out that there is not one indigenous culture, but several, and each people has developed its own religious, musical, festival and handicraft tradition
Amnesty is the legal act in which political crimes committed within a certain period of time are forgotten. In Brazil, the 1979 Amnesty Law allowed the return of all those accused of political crimes during the military regime. Meaning The word amnesty comes from the Greek “amnesty ” and means obl
The Brazilian National Anthem it dates from 1831, while the lyrics were written in 1909. It has music by Francisco Manuel da Silva (1795-1865) and lyrics by Joaquim Osório Duque Estrada (1870-1927). Lyrics of the Brazilian National Anthem (Part I) They heard from Ipiranga the placid banks From a
Education in Brazil begins with the arrival of the Portuguese, when priests assumed the role of catechists and teachers of the Indians. Thus, history has its beginning marked by the relationship established between religion and literacy, until the Jesuits were expelled from the country in 1759. On