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Yahoo
18-04-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
Tomb filled with skulls, bones of 24 battle victims discovered in Peru
Researchers carrying out excavation work in southern Peru found a tomb filled with the remains of two dozen people believed to be battle victims. Archaeologists from the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Wrocław in Poland have been studying a settlement in the Atico River Valley, a geographical area along the Puru's southern coast, the university said in a translated post on social media. The settlement existed before Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas, researchers said. Previous research has found the remains of Inca roads and some cave sites with rock paintings, researchers said, but little other work has been done in the region. Archaeological work in a cemetery area led to the discovery of the circular tomb. The burial site had a stone inscription listing 24 names, including those of men, women and children. The bones found inside the burial site were analyzed. The anthropological analyses confirmed that all 24 people in the tomb had "numerous damages," or battle injuries, "that are the direct cause of death." There were also "grave gifts" found at the site, including pottery pieces identified as belonging to the Chuquibamba or Aruni people, a pre-Incan culture based around the Majes basin, south of the research site. The bodies were wrapped in textiles. Pieces of ceramic, stone and wood products were also found, as well as corn cobs. The remains at the site were buried "in accordance with ritual," the researchers noted. The research team said they believed the group was killed as a result of a conflict. The people who died were likely from the group that won the conflict, allowing for the elaborate burial, the researchers said. Work at the site will continue through April. White House responds to judge who found cause to hold Trump administration in contempt Outbreak Science | 60 Minutes Archive Demis Hassabis | Sunday on 60 Minutes
CBS News
18-04-2025
- Science
- CBS News
Tomb filled with skulls and bones of 24 battle victims discovered in Peru
Researchers carrying out excavation work in southern Peru found a tomb filled with the remains of two dozen people believed to be battle victims. Archaeologists from the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Wrocław in Poland have been studying a settlement in the Atico River Valley, a geographical area along the Puru's southern coast, the university said in a translated post on social media . The settlement existed before Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas, researchers said. Previous research has found the remains of Inca roads and some cave sites with rock paintings, researchers said, but little other work has been done in the region. Archaeological work in a cemetery area led to the discovery of the circular tomb. The burial site had a stone inscription listing 24 names, including those of men, women and children. The bones found inside the burial site were analyzed. The anthropological analyses confirmed that all 24 people in the tomb had "numerous damages," or battle injuries, "that are the direct cause of death." There were also "grave gifts" found at the site, including pottery pieces identified as belonging to the Chuquibamba or Aruni people, a pre-Incan culture based around the Majes basin, south of the research site. The bodies were wrapped in textiles. Pieces of ceramic, stone and wood products were also found, as well as corn cobs. The remains at the site were buried "in accordance with ritual," the researchers noted. The research team said they believed the group was killed as a result of a conflict. The people who died were likely from the group that won the conflict, allowing for the elaborate burial, the researchers said. Work at the site will continue through April.
Yahoo
17-04-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
Massive circular tomb filled with battle-scarred people unearthed in Peru
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The battle-scarred skeletons of two dozen people have been discovered in Peru, revealing new evidence of an ancient conflict. The site, El Curaca, is located in the Atico River Valley in south coastal Peru and was occupied around A.D. 1000 to 1450 by the Chuquibamba or Aruni people, who lived there before and after Spanish conquest. Archaeologists know little about the Aruni, beyond the many petroglyphs they left on cave walls in the area. But in October 2024, Jósef Szykulski of the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Wrocław in Poland and his team launched an excavation at the site and uncovered a large circular stone tomb filled with 24 skeletons of men, women and children. The collective burial included fragments of pottery, bone and stone tools, corn cobs and textiles. Preliminary analysis of the skeletons — which were wrapped in textiles — suggested that all of the people died due to injuries consistent with battle wounds. Related: Rare pre-Inca burials of 4 people found at 'water cult' temple in Peru RELATED STORIES —8 pre-Inca mummies and artifacts unearthed just beneath the streets of Lima, Peru —73 pre-Incan mummies, some with 'false heads,' unearthed from Wari Empire in Peru —5,000-year-old ceremonial temple discovered beneath sand dune in Peru The bodies were buried in a tomb along with rich grave goods, so Szykulski concluded that their side won the battle, with their surviving compatriots giving the massacred victims an honorable burial, according to a translated Facebook post. Szykulski and his team are continuing their work in Peru until the end of April. They are currently documenting the skulls using 3D scanning, working to conserve the textiles they found, and analyzing the pottery and wood items recovered from the burial. The ongoing research project, funded by the National Science Centre of Poland, will also use ancient DNA analysis in the future to better understand the pre-Inca archaeological cultures of the Atico River Valley region.
Miami Herald
07-04-2025
- Science
- Miami Herald
Men, women, children killed in ancient conflict found buried with care in Peru
Long before the age of the Inca, the Chuquibamba culture called the mountains and valleys of southern Peru home. The Inca, despite their fame and mark left on the country, belonged to 'just a blip' in Peruvian history lasting around 300 years, according to visit Peru. The rest of the time before Spaniards arrived, Peru belonged to a collection of nomadic tribes and some of the oldest cities in South America. Researchers from the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Wrocław, Poland, were studying these ancient cultures at a site called El Curaca when they came across a special burial, according to an April 5 Facebook post from the institute. The site is located in the Atico River valley, and previous excavation seasons have revealed stone structures and richly furnished collective burials, according to the institute. The most recent archaeological season began in October, and a particular mass grave caught the researcher's attention. The burial was found in a cemetery and held 24 individual people, including men, women and children, according to the post. They were surrounded by stones and buried with elaborate grave goods, researchers said. Ceramics, bone, stone and textiles were found among the items, suggesting the bodies had been buried to a ritualistic standard and with a significant amount of care. However, analysis of the human remains found the people had not died naturally, according to the institute. All individuals exhibited a number of physical injuries to their bodies, all of which could be attributed as their cause of death, researchers said. This suggests they were likely all killed in some sort of interpersonal conflict between their group and another, according to the post. The combination of gruesome deaths followed by careful and loving burials also suggests their group was victorious in the conflict, researchers said. A win for their community would mean the victors could bury their dead per their traditions, according to the post. Ceramics from the site were dated to the early Formative period, researchers said, between 1800 and 1000 B.C. Researchers will continue to analyze the remains and grave goods found at the site to learn more about this largely unknown culture, according to the post. The research is part of the Atico Valley Project, a collaboration between the university and the government of Peru. Previous studies in the valley have led to the discovery of rock paintings, the remains of Inca roads and shell dumps from gathering and fishing communities along the coast, according to the university. The Atico Valley is on the southern coast of Peru, about a 450-mile drive south along the Pacific Ocean coastline from Lima. ChatGPT, an AI chatbot, and Facebook Translate were used to translate the Facebook post from the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Wrocław. Google Translate was used to translate the information page on the Atico Valley Project from the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Wrocław.
BBC News
19-02-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
Marian Turski, Holocaust survivor and historian, dies aged 98
Polish Holocaust survivor, historian and journalist Marian Turski has died aged in 1926, Mr Turski survived the Lodz Ghetto, extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau and two death marches as a dedicating himself to history and journalism in post-war Poland, he co-founded Warsaw's landmark Jewish history museum and became president of the International Auschwitz drew international attention on the 75th anniversary of Auschwitz's liberation in 2020, when he remarked Auschwitz "did not fall from the sky" and warned it could happen again. Mr Turski was born as Moshe Turbowicz and spent much of his childhood in the Polish city of Lodz. After the Nazis conquered Poland in 1940, he and his family were moved to the Jewish ghetto established in the city which was plagued by disease, starvation and forced 1944, his parents and younger brother were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau – where Mr Turski, still a teenager, was to arrive two weeks later in one of the last transports from the Lodz Turski's father and brother were killed in the gas chambers, while his mother was sent to work at the Bergen Belsen camp in northern January 1945, as Soviet troops advanced, Mr Turski was among the 60,000 prisoners the Nazis forced to walk west in what came to be known as death marches. He first marched to concentration camp Buchenwald and later on to Terezin, where he was liberated on the brink of death from exhaustion and said it was as if he had amnesia after leaving Auschwitz, where he did not return for 20 years."I could never forget that I was in Auschwitz, because I have a number tattooed on my arm and I see it every day," he told Polish outlet Onet."However, after the war, I was struck by amnesia... I remembered individual episodes perfectly: arriving at the camp, a few other things, some stories from the death marches. Everything else was blurred, though."He rejected an offer to migrate west after the war, instead returning home in the hopes of building a socialist Turski studied history at the University of Wrocław, during which time he took up journalism and worked in political 1958, he became editor of the magazine Polityka's history section, from which he went on to become an influential journalist and historian. 'Do not be indifferent' Mr Turski drew international attention at the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in 2020, remarking that Auschwitz "did not fall from the sky".It approached "with small steps until what happened here, happened," he said the Eleventh Commandment of the Bible should be "thou shalt not be indifferent"."Because if you are indifferent, before you know it, another Auschwitz will come out of the blue for you or your descendants," he was one of four survivors who spoke again at the 80th anniversary in warned world leaders gathered by the gates of the camp that "we can observe a significant rise of antisemitism in today's world, and yet it was precisely antisemitism that led to the Holocaust".Poland's chief rabbi, Michael Schudrich, said the Jewish community would miss Mr Turski greatly."Marian was our teacher, he was our moral voice and mentor. "He was steeped in Jewish wisdom and used it to guide us on how to face today's problems. We are so blessed that we had Marian with us for so many years."Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Mr Turski's words had become "a motto for us".He wrote on X: "The 11th Commandment for these difficult times."Polityka magazine called Mr Turski "an extraordinary man, a witness to the ages, our friend" whose voice was heard "all over the world".
