Learn the 5 most popular museums in Peru

For those who want to dive into the history of this country and Latin America, TripAdvisor established a list of the most prominent museums according to its users.

Peru is an ideal destination for cultural tourism, for all its Inca past, how many remains have been preserved and its more recent history, in which highlight various characters.

For those who want to dive into the history of this country and Latin America, the major travel site, TripAdvisor, created a list of the most popular museums in Peru according to its users.

1. Larco Museum, Lima.

2. Royal Tombs of the Lord of Sipan, Chiclayo.

3. Cao Museum, Trujillo.

4. Mate Mario Testino Museum, Lima.

5. National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology and History, Lima.

Source: America Economía.

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The mysterious Moon Temple Machu Picchu

Located on the steep slopes falling on the north side of Huayna Picchu, Temple of the Moon was already known by Hiram Bingham called the 'Great Cave'. Federico Kauffmann said that must have been a place of worship of great importance for the care with which they were worked walls lining the grotto.

Although at that very moment thousands of people swarmed through Machu Picchu, in the Temple of the Moon was not a soul. And that's the best way to enjoy the Inca monuments in silence. We only came the sound of restless Urubamba river flowing towards more whimsical tropical latitudes.

There are two ways to peer into the Temple of the Moon, the first, most spectacular and courageous, requires climbing to the top of Huayna Picchu and then begin a long descent. The second involves taking a path that branches off to the left at the very base of Huayna Picchu, where you can see live rock made ladders and walls that separate you from the abyss, before the road crash in the jungle. The Temple of the Moon is 2,050 meters high, it is 400 meters less than Machu Picchu.

Source: La Republica.

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Museum of Tucume is awarded Best World Tourism Project

The newly opened Museum of Site Tucume in Lambayaque (north of Chiclayo), was awarded "Best World Tourism Project" award from the Association of British Travel Writers (BGTW) due to the tourism potential of the place and the social work done with communities area.

"The Tucume Museum has been honored with this award thanks to his visit in June this year, the British travel writer and author of the book" Trekking in Peru ', Hilary Bradt, who fell in love with this cultural center, "said Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism, Magali Silva.

The award was presented in November 2015, but the last last weekend proceeded with the official presentation of this distinction in the new premises of the museum, where they unveiled their new identity as 'eco-museum'.

"This is a new concept for Peru, through which communities can preserve, interpret and evaluate their assets for sustainable development," said Alfredo Narvaez, founding director of the Museum of Tucume.

Source: Peru21.

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Caral continues to surprise to the scientific community and the world

The world scientific community is still stunned with advanced knowledge in agronomy, climatology, engineering, medicine and other sciences that had 5,000 years ago that populated the Peruvian Caral, said the researcher Ruth Shady.

He stressed that to develop agricultural calendars and predict weather events laboratories that allowed them to determine the beginning and end of the sowing and harvesting campaigns, as well as changes that nature has to adapt to them were installed.

"In the field of energy efficiency and fluid mechanics, in Caral force wind took advantage, now known as Venturi principle, channeling it through underground pipes to have very high temperatures in furnaces," he said.

Shady said that when this knowledge was analyzed by physicists from the United States, they are asked how this civilization knew this 5,000 years ago, when Europe was discovered recently in 1740.

"In the field of pharmacology, in Caral We have found that for ailments such as headaches sauce packets containing the active ingredient of aspirin was applied. This ancestral knowledge survives until today," he said.

The researcher of the Caral civilization stressed that other knowledge that continues to surprise has to do with civil engineering, since the earthquake resistance of buildings 5,000 years ago with bases and applied seismic structures.

"A Belgian engineer who saw it said that knowledge that the ancient Peruvians were developed in at least six centuries to Europe and the rest of Latin knowledge of hydraulic engineering, civil, structural and agricultural" he said.

Source: Andina.

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Caral considered one of the 10 unforgettable findings of 2015

Caral considered one of the 10 unforgettable findings of 2015 according to National Geographic. "The Caral is the oldest civilization in the Americas," said Peruvian archaeologist Ruth Shady to this medium. The archaeological team unearthed three complete runs no clay figurines, two heads of the same material and numerous reliefs of starving characters that are an allegory of drought, famine and death he endured this culture. 

The disturbing expression of the three statuettes has not faded over the millennia. Most depicts a shaman priestess or showing breasts and genitals. The other two statues, with twenty fingers each, representing two characters in the hierarchy. "Women played a prominent religious, economic and political, as can be evidenced in the recovered material role activities," says Shady. "When the Spanish arrived in Peru they said that the natives were weak because they let women rule"

Caral is the cradle of as old as the Egyptian Memphis Andean civilization and culture that flourished in this holy city is considered the oldest in America, at least to date. Throughout the month of June, the Ministry of Culture of Peru has announced a series of findings about 3,800 years old that shed light on a remote culture that survived in an area hit by drought. The archaeological team led by Ruth Shady has unearthed three complete no clay figurines, two heads of the same material and numerous reliefs of starving characters that are an allegory of drought, famine and death he endured this culture.

Source: National Geographic.

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Archaeological site discovered in Amazon rainforest

On the hill of Atumpucro in the department of Amazonas a new archaeological site was found. Martin Chumbe explorer of Chachapoyas, discovered the composite structures of 150 houses in two hectares.

The Atumpucro complex has houses with rectangular windows, niches and friezes in all circles. The explorer also added that these houses are built on large terraces and breathtaking walls 50 meters long and 3 meters high.

It’s situated on the left bank of the Utcubamba River in the district of San Juan de Lopecancha (Amazonas). Atumpucro can become a new tourist destination where you can also see the Utcubamba River Valley.

Source: TeleSur.

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Four tombs discovered of 600 years in the Huaca Pucllana

A team of archaeologists from the Huaca Pucllana in Miraflores discovered four tombs possibly the Ychsma culture. Were three women and a grown man, they were buried in the main pyramid of the archaeological site in Lima.

The bodies were located to the southeast, in a seated position, wrapped in fabrics, baskets and ropes, all buried in the Great Pyramid. The finding confirms that this structure was used as a burial place for people considered elite. The characters found in the tombs ichmas are squatting beside reed brackets that hold them in that position. The funeral paraphernalia included pottery and textile tools such as punches and cactus spines.

This finding confirms the presence of the Ychsma culture in the ceremonial center located in the heart of Miraflores. Which it was installed on the central coast of the country between 1000 and 1450 AD.

Source: El Comercio.

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