The scientists has found 1300 year old mummy from a pre-Columbian pyramid known as Huaca Pucllana. It is found from the Isabel Flores by the team of archaeologists after the evacuation of 27 years.
It belongs to the residential area, which had been a city, previously located in the Miraflores district of Lima.. The archaeologist termed it as a great success which is achieved with the efforts of archaeologists and workers. They performed the work with complete respect to the ancient culture and values.
Lima - At least 10 people where injured in northern Peru when indigenous people protesting the exploitation of the Amazon rainforest clashed with police.
The violence Wednesday came during the latest of 11 days of protests by indigenous groups, which have organized strikes and roadblocks against new laws facilitating the sale of land in their traditional settlement areas in the Amazon jungle.
Indigenous communities can approve the sale of land with a simple majority vote. In the past, a two-thirds majority was necessary.
Bangkok - Peru plans to table the need for corporate social responsibility as a crucial element of globalization at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit to be hosted by Lima next November, Peru's deputy foreign minister said Thursday.
"If you are living in the Andes where you don't have electricity, education and health services and you have next door a very important international company that is making billions of dollars exploiting gold, silver and copper, that creates a social problem," noted Gonzalo Gutierrez Reinel during a visit to Bangkok.
Reinel, who is scheduled to meet Thai Foreign Minister Tej Bunnag Friday, was in the Thai capital to discuss progress in establishing a full-fledged free trade agreement
Lima - Demonstrators in southern Peru have taken about 70 police officers and a police general hostage and barricaded themselves in a cathedral in the city of Moquegua in their fight for a greater