APEC Tourism Workshop opens in Cusco against backdrop of endangered sites
October 15, 2009 by Andean Air Mail & PERUVIAN TIMES · Leave a Comment
Peru’s minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism, MartĂn PĂ©rez, opened the 35th Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation’s Working Group meeting Thursday in Cusco. The meeting is being held in the Sacred Valley, with 85 representatives attending from 21 APEC nations. The APEC forum accounts for 50 percent of the world’s Gross Domestic Product.
Villaume’s photo exhibit “Voices of the Andes” opens in Lima
June 17, 2009 by anniether · Leave a Comment
French freelance photographer Nicolas Villaume’s photo exhibition “Voices of the Andes” is an invitation to meet the inhabitants of the Andean highlands of Bolivia, Colombia and Peru. On display in Miraflores’ Luis Miró Quesada gallery throughout the month of June, the exhibit portrays through photographs and sound the richness of these Andean communities’ lives and [...]
Peru authorities crack down on smuggling of antiquities, return ancient Mesopotamian clay tablets to Iraq
February 3, 2009 by anniether · Leave a Comment
Peruvian authorities and the Andean country’s National Culture Institute, INC, have been leading a campaign to stamp out the trade in antiquities illegally smuggled from Peru, reporting the seizure of more than 1,200 cultural and national heritage artifacts in 2008. “Last year, we stopped 1,235 cultural objects from being smuggled out of Peru,” said the [...]
Odyssey Marine Exploration in more choppy water: Peru pushes legal claim over rights to sunken treasure
January 31, 2009 by anniether · Leave a Comment
Making more waves in already rough legal waters, Peru announced that it too – in addition to Spain and Tampa-based Odyssey Marine Exploration Co. – is to fight it out in U.S. federal court over the rights to 17 tons of gold and silver coins recovered from a shipwreck that sank in 1804. On Tuesday, [...]
Archaeologists restore high adobe walls in ancient Chimu city of Chan Chan
January 29, 2009 by anniether · Leave a Comment
A team of 500 archaeologists and workers has restored 2.5 kilometers of 12 meter-high walls in the city of Chan Chan – America’s largest pre-Hispanic mud-brick settlement – after rains in Peru’s normally arid northern coast caused ancient walls to crack and frieze murals to break off. The walls, restored after many months of painstaking [...]
