News Peruvian Archaeology & Tourism Over 3 million tourists visited Cusco in 2016 Archaeological and landscape sites in Cusco lured 3,053,279 domestic and foreign travelers in 2016, Cusco’s Regional Directorate of Foreign Trade... 29/01/2017 0 Comment
News Peruvian Archaeology & Tourism Spectacled bears, Machu Picchu’s latest hook A new spectacled bear sighting in Machu Picchu’s Inca sanctuary, caught on camera and shared on social media, confirms this... 29/01/2017 0 Comment
News Peruvian Archaeology & Tourism Peruvian female mummy one of top 10 discoveries of 2016 The recent finding of a high-status woman buried at the archaeological site of Aspero is among the top 10 discoveries... 29/01/2017 0 Comment
News Peruvian Archaeology & Tourism Come to Winikunka, Cusco’s Rainbow Mountain Unveiled to the world by global warming ice-melting, the unique Winikunka (Quechua for ‘Seven-color Mountain’) proves an increasingly popular destination... 28/01/2017 0 Comment
News Peruvian Archaeology & Tourism Early pre-Hispanic use of indigo blue in Peru Abstract Archaeological research has identified the use of cultivated cotton (Gossypium barbadense) in the ancient Andes dating back to at... 17/09/2016 0 Comment
News Peruvian Archaeology & Tourism Peruvian passport grabs Best ID Document Award Peru’s e-passport is the winner of the Regional ID Document of the Year 2016, granted by the High Security Printing... 28/06/2016 0 Comment
News Peruvian Archaeology & Tourism Receptive tourism expanded between 2011 and 2016 Receptive tourism experienced growth of over 40% between 2011 and 2016, mainly boosted by Peru’s Foreign Trade and Tourism Ministry’s... 28/06/2016 0 Comment
News Peruvian Archaeology & Tourism Receptive tourism to experience annual 15% growth starting 2018 Peru’s receptive tourism industry would experience an annual sustained growth of 15% starting 2018 if immediate measures are adopted, Lima... 28/06/2016 0 Comment
Khipus News Peruvian Archaeology & Tourism Un-Knotting the Past: a New Khipu Archive at Inkawasi, Peru Archaeologists excavating an Inca storehouse at the site of Inkawasi on Peru’s south coast have unearthed 34 khipus, the knotted-string... 22/04/2016 0 Comment
News Peruvian Archaeology & Tourism Thousands of aligned holes in Peru’s Pisco Valley have attracted... Members of the public regularly get in touch with Charles Stanish, an expert on Andean cultures at the University of California,... 22/04/2016 0 Comment