Some of the world’s greatest cultural and historical treasures are housed in London’s British Museum, and a significant number of them were taken during Britain’s centuries-long imperial rule. In recent years, many of the countries missing their cultural heritage have been asking for some of these items back. Benin City in Nigeria is one of […]Read More
AP Archive (28 Feb 2020) The Peruvian government displayed on Thursday 21 cultural artifacts returned to embassies in Argentina, Canada, Ecuador and Brazil. Pieces including paintings, textiles and ceramics were displayed in a ceremony where the Peruvian Foreign Minister Gustavo Meza-Cuadra delivered the items to the Cultural Minister Sonia Guillen. The Foreign Ministry said the […]Read More
Entrevista de WAWA FILMS PERU antes del Covid – 19, a Ruth Shady Solís, directora de la Zona Arqueológica Caral. Ella es la arqueóloga peruana más destacada y premiada, por la puesta en valor de la ciudad sagrada de Caral. Palabras textuales de la entrevista . ¨La civilización Caral es muy importante para el Perú, […]Read More
por: Dr. Hugo R. Ludena Al celebrarse el 18 de enero un aniversario más de la fundación española de Lima, después de 474 años, todavía quedan en Lima las huellas del odio contra Pizarro, en un extraño simbolismo. El 26 de junio de 1541 su breve gobierno acabó fatalmente, cuando los almagristas, llamados “los de […]Read More
This is some of the earliest color footage of Machu Picchu in Cuzco, Peru taken in June and July of 1950. The film begins at a railroad station with people in a cattle car and men on the roof playing instruments. A woman spins at a busy marketplace. The camera pans a narrow steep gorge […]Read More
Digitized by the UNESCO Archives. A production of UNESCO and the Abu Simbel Joint Venture. When the work began on the High Aswan Dam in Upper Egypt, the two temples of Abu Simbel, carved in the living rock which rises from the banks of the Nile, were threatened with complete destruction. In following the course […]Read More
Interviewee: John Rowe (University of California – Berkeley) Interviewer: Charles Wagley (University of Florida) Date: April 24, 1984 Video oral history of anthropologist John Rowe conducted by anthropologist Charles Wagley. Dr. Rowe discusses the people and places that were influential in his career and his archeological fieldwork in Cuzco, Peru. Video is from the “History […]Read More
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