Ancient tomb found in Machu Picchu archaeological park

October 11th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A Syrian-Japanese archaeological mission has unearthed a number of individual tombs with skeletons of children inside, and the hole of the grave inside the tomb, in Palmyra, Syria, which is the first of its kind to be discovered in the region. The mission also unearthed an earthenware jar with a skeleton of an infant inside.

October 6th, 2009 Machu Picchu, Barcelona church on threatened listNEW YORK — Peru's Machu Picchu ancient ruins, Antoni Gaudi's Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona and a New Orleans elementary school are among the cultural heritage sites threatened by neglect or overdevelopment, a preservationist group said Tuesday. The World Monuments Fund's watch list for 2010 includes 93 sites in 47 countries, ranging from Phajoding, a remote monastery in Bhutan, to the bridges along Connecticut's scenic Merritt Parkway.

September 21st, 2009 SYDNEY - A book, titled, "The Road Less Travelled: 1,000 Amazing Places Off the Tourist Trail", has outlined the world's most over-rated tourist sites. According to a report carried out in www.news.com.au, here are the 5 most over-rated ancient and historical sites in the world, according to the book.

September 9th, 2009 LIMA - Archaeologists in Peru have discovered a tomb containing the remains of a woman believed to be around 2,900 years old in the country's northern Cajamarca region, a media report said. "On the night of Sep 2, under a full moon, we were finally able to get to the remains of the person who occupied the tomb we had located Aug 31," Yuji Seki of Japan, the lead researcher, told the Peruvian daily El Comercio Wednesday.

September 8th, 2009 Is Stonehenge overrated? Book offers optionsNEW YORK — Is Stonehenge overrated? Too many people at Machu Picchu? And what about the crowds at the Grand Canyon? A new book, "Off the Tourist Trail: 1,000 Unexpected Travel Alternatives" says some of the world's most famous destinations are over-visited, overpriced and overrated. But for every place it smacks down, the book suggests alternatives that provide comparable if lesser-known experiences.

July 31st, 2009 Ancient warrior's skeleton found near RomeROME — Archaeologists have found the skeleton of a warrior from up to 5,000 years ago floating in a tomb filled with sea water on a beach near Rome, Italy's art squad said Friday. The bones — believed to date from the 3rd millennium B.C.

July 27th, 2009 SOFIA - A team of archaeologists has found a sanctuary in Central Bulgaria where the nymph cult used to be celebrated in ancient times. According to a report in the Balkan Travellers, the sanctuary was found by archaeologists in the vicinity of the Nicopolis ad Istrum ancient site, located near the town of Veliko Tarnovo in central Bulgaria.

July 13th, 2009 LIMA - A team of archaeologists has discovered an Inca road in Peru, which was unknown until now and apparently held sacred, leading to the citadel of Machu Picchu. According to a report in Today's News, the discovery was made by archaeologists from the Peru National Culture Institute and technicians from Jaume I University in Castellon, Spain.

July 2nd, 2009 LIMA - In a new study, a team of scientists have determined that the success of the Inca was boosted by a period of global warming that lasted more than four centuries. The new study is called "Putting the Rise of the Inca within a Climatic and Land Management Context" and was prepared by Alex Chepstow-Lusty, an English paleo-biologist working for the French Institute of Andean Studies, in Lima, Peru.

June 14th, 2009 WASHINGTON - An Italian study has concluded that Machu Picchu, the "lost city of the Incas," was not a true city, but rather a pilgrimage center symbolically connected to the Andean vision of the cosmos. According to Giulio Magli, professor of archaeoastronomy at Milan's Polytechnic University, Machu Picchu was the ideal counterpart of the Island of Sun, a rocky islet in the southern part of Lake Titicaca.

June 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Archaeologists have found ancient jade vessels in a tomb dating back five thousand years in China, which represents the last Neolithic jade culture of Yangtze River Delta of the country. The tomb, found in the cities of Haining and Xiaoshan, is the deepest tomb ever found in Zhejiang province.

June 5th, 2009 LONDON - Archaeologists in Peru have discovered the remains of nearly three dozen people sacrificed some 600 years ago in a gruesome ritual by the Incan civilization. The bodies, some of which show signs of having been cut along their necks and collarbones, were otherwise found in good condition, Carlos Webster, who is leading excavations at the Chotuna-Chornancap camp, told the Telegraph.

May 29th, 2009 SHANGHAI - An archaeological team has discovered five ancient tombs of the Song and Ming dynasties in Huai'an, east China's Jiangsu Province. According to a report in Shanghai Daily, the burial sites were originally accidentally discovered by workers of local electricity supply department when they made the ground work to set up a power-supply tower, a member of the archaeological team said.

May 29th, 2009 LONDON - Reports indicate that Italian experts will help Iran restore the tomb of Cyrus the Great (580-529BC), considered one of the most magnificent monuments of antiquity. According to a report by Poundbury Publishing, an agreement signed in Tehran will see Italian archaeologists working with their Iranian colleagues for at least two years.

May 14th, 2009 LIMA - An Inca stone of 41 angles was found during the archaeological excavations that are being carried out these days by the National Institute of Culture (INC) in Torontoy, in the area of the Sanctuary of Machu Picchu in Peru. According to information received, the finding was confirmed by the president of the project, Omar Spanish Gutierrez, who referred that the stone measures are 6 meters high and 2,50 meters wide, and also said that it has the form of a flame.