For years, researchers have questioned who created the “band of holes” site in Peru. A new study suggests it was an ancient ...
High in the Peruvian Andes, a ribbon of thousands of hand-dug pits marches across a barren hillside, so regular and extensive ...
New research published in Antiquity reveals the first scientific evidence that Peru’s puzzling “Band of Holes” — once ...
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.
New research suggests that the holes were the site of an ancient marketplace, and Inca rulers may have used them as a ...
An extensive row of more than five thousand cavities, drilled with geometric precision into the arid slope of a Peruvian hill ...
In Peru’s mysterious Pisco Valley, thousands of perfectly aligned holes known as Monte Sierpe have long puzzled scientists.
Thousands of holes arranged in a snake-like pattern on Monte Sierpe in Peru could have been a monumental accounting device ...
In South America, a mysterious monument stretches almost a mile (1.5 kilometers) through the southern Peruvian Andes. Called Monte Sierpe, meaning serpent mountain, it consists of rows of around 5,200 ...