Unearthed 400-year-old document shows how Peruvian natives used numbers
Tuesday, August 24, 2010 - 16:42
in Paleontology & Archaeology
In the early 1600s in northern Peru, a curious Spaniard jotted down some notes on the back of a letter. Four hundred years later, archaeologists dug up and studied the paper, revealing what appear to be the first traces of a lost language.