Lima, Peru | Saturday 07 November 2009 18:35 | | |

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A scientist from the University of Cambridge came to the conclusion that the Nasca civilization was destroyed because they eliminated its natural defense line; the huarangos forest, which used to protect them from the the ravages of “El Niño.”
Peru's President Alan García Pérez signed the bill that will create the Ministry of Culture, the first one in the nation's history, which will now be submitted to Parliament.
More than 400 actors and traditional dancers will take part in the dramatization of the appearance in Lake Titicaca of mythical couple Manco Cápac and Mama Ocllo, founders of Inca Empire according to local legends.
A homage to Inca Garcilaso de la Vega's "Los Comentarios Reales" will be paid at the 4th Dallas International Book Fair.
According to a poll conducted by the Universidad de Lima (University of Lima) and published today in El Comercio, most Limenians prefer to celebrate the “Día de la Canción Criolla” (Day of “Creole” Music) rather than Halloween.
After nearly a year of intense search, the fossilized skull of a Smilodon, known as "saber tooth tiger" was found during an expedition through the area known as "Pampa de los Fósiles" (Fossils Ground) in the province of Pacasmayo, La Libertad region.
A team of Peruvian archaeologists found 12 wooden anthropomorphic statues, more than 500 years old, in the archaeological complex of Chan Chan, the largest mud city in America, located some 570 kilometers north of Lima.
Peru's National Institute of Culture (INC) declared officially as “cultural heritage” more than 40 monuments and prehispanic sites in the regions of Piura, Lima, Cusco, Huancavelica, Apurímac, Moquegua, Áncash, Junín, Pasco, Puno, Amazonas, Ayacucho and Huánuco.
A frieze that would have been sculpted 5,000 years ago, was found at Vichama archaeological complex, some 120km to the north of Lima, according to archaeologists of the Caral-Supe project.
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