Lima, Peru | Saturday 21 November 2009 20:38 | | |
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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.
Peruvian artist Fernando Bryce has been included in the shortlist for the £40,000 prize of the 2009 “Artes Mundi” competition, the UK's biggest visual arts prize, which has attracted more than 480 nominations from more than 80 countries.
The World Monuments Fund ( WMF), announced the 2010 World Monuments Watch list, and the famous Peruvian Machu Picchu ruins are included in it.
The Arequipa Book Fair 2009 (FIL 2009) closed doors yesterday, surpassing by far the organizers' expectations, who issued a press release informing about the official figures on sales and attendance during the 12 days that this fair lasted.
The Peruvian writer Daniel Alarcón won the new International Prize for Literature, award, created by the House of World Cultures in Berlin (HKW), for his novel “Radio Ciudad Perdida” (Lost City Radio), which was translated into German.
In the last number of the Argentinian magazine “Fierro”, the editors have included an illustrated adaptation of “París, October 1936", from the famous Peruvian poet César Vallejo.
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