No, it wasn’t built by aliens. But accountants? Maybe. Researchers used drones to get another look at the "Band of Holes" along Monte Sierpe, and their work suggests that the Inca may have ...
Extend your itinerary beyond Peru’s classic sights to discover ancient temples, mermaid-cursed waterfalls and some of the ...
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Thousands of Mysterious Holes Dot the Landscape in Peru. Archaeologists Say They May Finally Know Why
New research suggests the Band of Holes functioned as a barter marketplace before becoming an accounting system for the Inca ...
New research suggests the Band of Holes in southern Peru may have been first a market and later an Inca accounting device.
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There are thousands of aligned holes in Peru. Archaeologists now think they know who created them
A series of about 5,200 holes stretching nearly a mile (1.5 kilometers) across the Pisco Valley in the southern Peruvian ...
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.
The site, known in Spanish as Monte Sierpe (Serpent Mountain), first came to broader attention after an aerial photograph of the stone-lined holes was taken in the 1930s and published in National ...
New research published in Antiquity reveals the first scientific evidence that Peru’s puzzling “Band of Holes” — once ...
Sediment analysis and drone photography of the iconic South American monument of Monte Sierpe (aka "Band of Holes") support a new interpretation of this mysterious landscape feature as part of an ...
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