Author: Impetriz

The National Base of Underwater Archaeology (South China Sea) under China’s National Cultural Heritage Administration was recently launched. With a planned area of 74 mu (about 49,333 square meters) and a total construction area of 31,085 square meters, the base is expected to perform various functions, including underwater cultural heritage survey and protection, cultural heritage repair and archaeologist training, according to the administration. Li Qun, vice minister of culture and tourism and head of the administration, said the South China Sea is the largest in scale and richest in underwater cultural heritage among China’s waters, and is an important area…

A woman burned alive in a town square by her jilted ex-boyfriend died following five days of agony, Peru’s women’s minister said Friday, slamming police for their slow response. Katherine Gomez, 18, was admitted to the hospital last Saturday suffering from burns to 60 percent of her body. “She fought for her life but, unfortunately, the amount of damage she suffered made it impossible for doctors to save her life and they told us she has died,” Minister Nancy Tolentino told RPP radio station. The grim case has shocked Peruvians. According to police, the perpetrator was a 19-year-old Venezuelan who…

After two years of scanning Peru’s southern Pacific coast with drones, taking aerial photos, and conducting field surveys, researchers and archeologists have discovered 168 additional geoglyphs in the mysterious Nazca lines. The massive, carved trenches — attributed by some to aliens — are the latest addition to over 800 straight lines, 300 geometric figures, and 70 animal and plant designs, which also called biomorphs, according to National Geographic. The recently discovered carved figures average between 6 and 19 feet in length and include the outlined figures of cats, snakes, killer whales, and alpacas, according to a statement released by Yamagata…

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured this photograph while orbiting over the Atacama Desert and Central Andes Mountains near the border of Bolivia, Peru, and Chile. Over the Pacific Ocean, marine stratocumulus clouds develop over cold water that rises from the ocean depths as the Peru current (Humboldt current) flows north along the west coast of South America. The coastline is marked by low mountains that are dissected by canyons carved by rivers that flow down the western side of the Andes. Inland of the coastal mountains, the Atacama Desert receives an average annual rainfall of less than 5 millimeters (0.2 inches). This dry…