Florida professor may have solved mystery of Peru’s Band of Holes Charles Stanish surmised indentations were rudimentary market place and later adapted as accounting and storage system The Guardian - US · Nov 27, 2025
This mountainside is covered in thousands of mysterious ancient holes. Scientists now believe they know why Early aerial photographs first highlighted the scale of Peru’s Monte Sierpe monument. Almost a century later, scientists have worked out what it might have been used for The Independent UK · Nov 11, 2025
Scientists may finally have an explanation for the centuries-old 5,200 mystery holes in the Peruvian Andes Drone footage and on-the-ground excavations high in the Andes are revealing what the Chincha Kingdom and Inca Empire may have used these holes for centuries ago. LiveScience · Nov 10, 2025
Golden bling, ‘sex pot’ ceramics and superheroes: Peruvian empire treasures come to Sydney in new exhibition The Australian Museum’s Machu Picchu exhibition brings ancient Andean societies to life – and features an extravagant collection of gold The Guardian - AU · Nov 22, 2024
Look: 500 years ago, Ancient Peruvians used human remains to defy colonialism 500-year-old evidence shows Peruvians may have reassembled their deads' vertebrae on poles as a ritual to counter colonizers' tomb raiding and looting. Inverse · Feb 11, 2022
Native Peruvians threaded corpses’ spines on to sticks, study suggests Chincha people put their dead back together after colonisers disturbed graves when looting silver and gold, research says The Guardian - UK · Feb 2, 2022