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Read about the Inca's Afterlife and how it differs or relates to some of the modern religions afterlife.Read about the Inca's Afterlife and how it differs or relates to some of the... more
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Machu Picchu is a site of 15th Century. Machu Picchu means ‘Old Peaks’. This is a historical city. It is at 2430 meters height from sea. It is located near Urubamba Valley of Peru. Urubamba Valley is 80 kilometres far from Cusco. The river Urubamba flows through this valley. According to research of archaeologists, this city was built in the period of Pachacuti Inca emperor. He lived in the period 1438 to 1472. Historians also call Machu Picchu ‘the lost city of Inca’.Machu Picchu is a site of 15th Century. Machu Picchu means ‘Old Peaks’.... more
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The earthquake that struck Haiti has been particularly disastrous for its high intensity, 7.3 on the Richter scale, and especially because the epicenter was a few kilometers from the capital Port au Prince, whose center and suburbs have nearly 4 million inhabitants. If the dead will be, as is feared, more than 100,000 the earthquake could be one of the most destructive in the history of our planet.
http://www.inaltreparole.net/en/science/terremotohaiti130110.htmlThe earthquake that struck Haiti has been particularly disastrous for its high... more
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VPK Solutions travels to Nazca Peru where we found an amazing Peruvian man who takes us into his home office to play some of his native songs for us. We know the songs are Incan but we never got them translated into english. Can any of our viewers on Current Translate his lyrics for us? We can't wait to hear your responses!
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www.myspace.com/vpksolutionsVPK Solutions travels to Nazca Peru where we found an amazing Peruvian man who takes... more
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VPK Solutions travels to Nazca Peru where we found an amazing Peruvian man who takes us into his home office to play some of his native songs for us. We know the songs are Incan but we never got them translated into english. Can any of our viewers on Current Translate his lyrics for us? We can't wait to hear your responses!
VPK Solutions
"where content is created"
www.myspace.com/vpksolutionsVPK Solutions travels to Nazca Peru where we found an amazing Peruvian man who takes... more
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The vast empires of the Incas and Aztecs were highly advanced. They kept detailed tax records, built elaborate temples, and at their height, Central and South America boasted a thriving population of as many as 60 million souls.
But their grand civilizations bore another trapping of modernity, scientists have found, one that until recently was thought unique to our industrialized world: human-induced climate change.
In the 16th century, the diseases Europeans brought to the New World decimated native peoples. With no natural defense against smallpox, yellow fever, and a host of exotic new pathogens, 90 percent of the population was dead by 1600.
We're talking about wiping out about 9 percent of the world's population at one time.
The killing left a lasting impact on the global climate. Suddenly as much as 500,000 square kilometers (193,051 square miles) of cleared farmland was no longer being tended, an area slightly larger than California. And as the rainforest crept back in, it vacuumed carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere in the process.
In all, the authors estimate that reforestation of South and Central America could have removed up to 10 billion tons of carbon from the atmosphere.
Around the same time, climate records show from that global temperatures cooled about 0.1 degrees centigrade (about 0.2 degrees Fahrenheit) from 1500 until 1750. But in northern Europe the dip was far more dramatic, and came to be known as the Little Ice Age.The vast empires of the Incas and Aztecs were highly advanced. They kept detailed tax... more
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Infrared and multispectral images reveal massive structure
A new remote sensing technology has peeled away layers of mud and rock near Peru's Cahuachi desert to reveal an ancient adobe pyramid, Italian researchers announced on Friday at a satellite imagery conference in Rome.
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. Covered by plants and grass, it was about a mile away from Cahuachi's archaeological site, which contains the remains of what is believed to be the world's biggest mud city.
Via Quickbird, Masini and colleagues collected hi-resolution infrared and multispectral images. After the researchers optimized the images with special algorithms, the result was a detailed visualization of a pyramid extending over a 9,000-square-mile area.
The discovery doesn't come as a surprise to archaeologists, since some 40 mounds at Cahuachi are believed to contain the remains of important structures.
"We know that many buildings are still buried under Cahuachi's sands, but until now, it was almost impossible to exactly locate them and detect their shape from an aerial view," Masini told Discovery News. "The biggest problem was the very low contrast between adobe, which is sun-dried earth, and the background subsoil."
Cahuachi is the best-known site of the Nazca civilization, which flourished in Peru between the first century B.C. and the fifth century A.D. and slid into oblivion by the time the Inca Empire rose to dominate the Andes. Infrared and multispectral images reveal massive structure
A new remote sensing... more
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Nick updates us on the Journey of the Run II, and gives new thoughts and emotions about the upcoming run where he will run from Cusco to the Inca Ruins in Peru, South America over the course of 3 days for the duration of 54 miles at altitudes over 12,000 feet in the Andes Mountains. NIck and I are trying to raise awareness so the orphanage can build a school. http://www.v4peru.com.
Peace, speak for those who cannot speak for themselves.Nick updates us on the Journey of the Run II, and gives new thoughts and emotions... more
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