Peru

The skull of the teenage mummy discovered in Peru. The child was likely a member of the Ichma community that lived in the area some 900 years ago, before it was annexed by the Inca empire in the 15th century. The mummy of a teenager who lived roughly 800-1,200 years ago, complete with skin fragments and tufts of hair, has been unearthed on the outskirts of the Peruvian capital Lima, the leader of the excavation team said…

Screenshot: Warner Bros. PicturesThe world always needs more Paddington—and production has finally started on the third film in the wonderful, feel-good series starring the best bear.Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard Nerd Out About Jurassic Park's Returning HeroesVariety reports that Paddington in Peru will begin filming July 24 in London and Peru, with seasoned commercial director Dougal Wilson making his feature film debut on the film. “As a huge fan of the first two films, I am very excited (if not a little…

The Spanish pop superstar Rosalía disappointed thousands of fans in Peru when the country was left off the 15-country list on her Motomami tour last year.But one Peruvian, Ioanis Patsias decided to make sure his fellow fans did not miss out on her pop spectacle and put on a tribute show, playing the avant-garde pop queen himself.The result was sellout performance on Friday as more 3,500 followers went to see the YouTuber and eight dancers meticulously recreate Rosalía’s show down to the costume changes, the dance numbers,…

Experts say the mummy is between 600 and 800 years old. Police in Peru have seized a mummified human, between 600 and 800 years old, from a former food delivery man who claimed to have had it at his home for three decades. The mummy was in the isothermal bag the man had once used to deliver food to people's homes. The man,…

National Geographic announced the winning photographs from its first "Pictures of the Year" photo competition.The contest, which opened to U.S. residents in early December, invited readers to submit a digital photograph in one of four categories: nature, people, places and animals.The contest required that photographs be largely unaltered. According to the rules, "only minor burning, dodging and/or color correction is acceptable, as is minor cropping." Photos with other changes are "unacceptable and ... ineligible for a…

It's official. Netflix to soon end password sharing. The company's new co-CEO Greg Peters recently said that the company plans to end password sharing before the end of March. Netflix said that it will start launching the account-sharing fees beyond its test countries before the end of March and that a full, global rollout will take a couple quarters. The company further added that the rollout would be in a phased manner across markets. The company said that it "will not start charging everyone globally at the same time…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. and one in Canada has characterized a large number of red pigment samples found on the bones of ancient people who once lived in what is now southern Peru. In their paper published in Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, the group describes their study of the pigments. …

People traveling abroad this Christmas may not find their favorite holiday food on the menu.That's because traditional holiday fare varies around the world.To see who's eating what this weekend, the culinary website Chef's Pencil created a map showing what it says are the most popular Christmas dishes around the world.Where turkey is the traditionTravelers spending the holiday in the United States, Canada, France, Ireland and the United Kingdom can expect turkey on the table this Christmas, according to the map.Those…

The Nazca desert in Peru is like an art gallery for the gods above. Yet even with decades of surveyance from the skies, we've barely explored a small wing of this fading collection of giants among the stones.Last year, an archaeologist in Peru told The Guardian he thought scientists had found only 5 percent of all the Nazca lines out there in the desert. Researchers at Yamagata University in Japan are now working with local archaeologists to change that, and their latest haul of ancient lines nearly doubles the previous…

The lopsided, scratchy rhythms of cumbia, the music of Colombia and Peru, have enjoyed growing popularity in recent years, be it via antique recordings or slick, electro updates, many of them from Argentina. On Perú Selvático, pop archaeology explores some of cumbia’s most distant shores, specifically those of the upper Amazon in the 1970s, where towns hundreds of miles from the capital, Lima, spawned their own variations on the genre. Central to many of its 18 tracks is the twang of surf guitar, by then a bygone fad in…