Lima - The entire Peruvian cabinet handed in their resignations en masse to President Alan Garcia on Thursday over corruption allegations.

Jorge del Castillo, head of the Peruvian Council of Ministers, and all the cabinet members offered to resign at a time when Congress is making progress on a vote of no-confidence against them.

A rare union of opposition legislators is likely to allow the no- confidence vote to pass with 70 votes in favour, when only 61 are required, analysts said.

Washington, Oct 4: A new remote sensing technology in a satellite has helped discover an ancient adobe pyramid near Peru’s Cahuachi desert.

According to a report in Discovery News, Nicola Masini and Rosa Lasaponara of Italy’s National Research Council (CNR) discovered the pyramid by analyzing images from the satellite Quickbird, which they used to penetrate the Peruvian soil.

The researchers investigated a test area along the river Nazca.

Lima - In the north of Peru a tour bus plunged 150 metres down into a ravine

Washington, September 16: The discovery of eighty skeletons and stockpiles of textiles, found in caves near the ancient Inca site of Machu Picchu in Peru, may shed light on the role that the so-called Lost City of the Inca played as a regional center of trade and power.

According to a report in National Geographic News, researchers found the artifacts and remains at two sites within the Machu Picchu Archaeological Park in southeastern Peru.

The remains, most of which were found in May 2008 at a site called Salapunku, probably date to 500 to 550 years ago, according to Francisco Huarcaya, the site's lead researcher.

Peru), September 4 : A scientific expedition, made up of Polish, North American, and Peruvian specialists, discovered tombs, apparently from the Pre-Incan culture, as well as archaeological remains in Peru’s Colca canyon.

According to a report in Living in Peru, the finding was when the team was covering a zone never explored due to its inaccessibility and lack of technology.

The trip allowed scientists to carry out works in the geological, hydrogeological, hydrographical, speleological (study of caves and caverns) ambits, as well as in the electromagnetic field, for which high technology equipment was used to compile exact data on each explored area.

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.