Peru's ancient mysteries.(INVESTIGATIVE FILES)(Report) From: The Skeptical Inquirer | Date: July 1, 2007| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2007 Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Peru, like all the Americas, was relatively recently settled (an occurrence made possible by the last Ice Age, which allowed humans to cross the now-inundated Bering Land Bridge between present-day Russia and Alaska). A succession of native cultures flourished in various regions and eventually metamorphosed into the Inca Empire. This began in the Andean highlands circa 1200 A.D. and--by the Spanish Conquest of the 1530s--ranged from Ecuador south to Chile.

Ancient mysteries abound in Peru, several of which I was able to look into prior to speaking at the Second Ibero-American ...