The Controversial Legacy of Arthur Posnansky, The Half-Forgotten Pioneer of Andean Archaeology. By Dave Truman Arthur Posnansky enjoys a rather ambiguous status in contemporary Bolivian archaeology. On the one hand, he is hailed as the father of the South American nation’s archaeological pedagogy. On the other, many of his findings are ignored and his theories dismissed. […]
Once thought to be natural formations, we now know the extremely weathered formations in Tacume are indeed ancient pyramids. Batan Grande Peru is rapidly becoming the capital of the pyramid world. Not only does it have the oldest officially recorded pyramid in the world (Caral), with each archaeologist’s spade dig, more pyramid complexes are uncovered. […]
In the early 1600s in northern Peru, a curious Spaniard jotted down some notes on the back of a letter. Four hundred years later, archaeologists dug up and studied the paper, revealing what appear to be the first traces...
High winds and sandstorms in Peru have revealed previously undiscovered geoglyphs in the ancient Nazca Lines. Eduardo Herrán Gómez de la Torre, a pilot and researcher...
wishlist(0)
