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.

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