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View this email in your browser Premium Discounts |  Contact   Discovery of Two Boat Burials Changes Viking Timeline According to accepted accounts, the Viking Age began in 793 AD off the coast of northern England when the first raid of Scandinavian warriors is recorded to have taken place. The Vikings emerged suddenly and expanded rapidly across Europe, Asia and the Americas.  Although the Vikings are known to have originated in Scandinavia, there is little known about how and why they suddenly built ships and took off in search of new lands. Was it climate change, overpopulation, desire for wealth or simply a thirst for adventure?... Read More... Sip Like a Sumerian: Ancient Beer Recipe Recreated from Millennia-Old Cuneiform Tablets Nowadays, people drink beer for its good taste and feel-good effects. However, thousands of years ago, beer played a much more central role in society. The Sumerian word for beer appears in many contexts relating to religion, medicine and myth, and Mesopotamian workers were even paid with beer . The ancient art of beer-making goes back at least 6,000 years and, in recent years, beer breweries have teamed up with archaeologists to recreate ancient Sumerian beer recipes... Read More... The Smelliest Women of Ancient Greece: Jason and the Argonauts Get Fragrant We all know Aphrodite, Greek goddess of love and beauty, made sure that she was worshipped by punishing those who ignored her altars. One brief appearance of this wrath in the tale of Jason and the Argonauts turned into a particularly fragrant episode. Jason and company were sailing on the Argo when they washed up on the shores of the Greek island of Lemnos at a time when that isle was in the grip of a harrowing problem. Aphrodite had decided to curse the women of Lemnos for neglecting her shrines... Read More... Modern Science Confirms Ancient Chinese Remedy Provides Effective Non-Addictive Pain Relief With innovations appearing in our lives seemingly every day it seems that new breakthroughs in science are the only ones we trust. New is always considered better. With this prevalent thinking those who espouse the wisdom of the ancients are ignored and perhaps even ridiculed – right up until the point when modern science backs them up. Sometimes looking to ancient knowledge as a source and then checking with modern science can yield useful results... Read More...   You Might Like

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Your Daily Newsletter Are you a fan of starting your day off right with a hearty breakfast? Us, too. In this video, we share the top 5 places to get breakfast in Lima. Click here to read more! Just three months old, Picogallo is a fresh, new fast food option in the San Isidro District of Lima. The concept is simple Tex-Mex made- to-order—like a Mexican version of Subway. Click here to read more!   NEWS NATIONAL PERU IS PRODUCING 2 ANIMATED SERIES Two animated children’s series made entirely in Peru will mark a milestone in Peruvian TV under two titles “Ciudad Jardín” and “Martina y Rigoberto o filosofía de recreo”. READ MORE HERE   NEWS NATIONAL A PILOT DENOUNCES KEIKO FUJIMORI AND JOAQUÍN RAMÍREZ FOR MONEY LAUNDERING The pilot Jesús Vásquez ratified before the prosecutor specialized in money laundering, Wilson Salazar Requena, and prosecutor Corina Trujillo Peralta that Joaquín Ramírez, ex-congressman for Fuerza Popular, told him that he laundered $15 million US dollars in behalf of the then-presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori. READ MORE HERE   NEWS INTERNATIONAL PERU IS THE THIRD CHEAPEST COUNTRY IN THE REGION FOR FOREIGNERS Lima is one of the most economical cities for a foreigner to live in South America, according to the annual cost of living ranking drawn up by Mercer. READ MORE HERE   NEWS INTERNATIONAL YOUNG SPANISH WOMAN WHO DISAPPEARED LAST YEAR WAS FOUND IN THE PERUVIAN JUNGLE Patricia Aguilar, the young Spanish woman from who disappeared in 2017 after reaching the age of majority,has been located in a jungle region of Peru. READ MORE HERE   NEWS INTERNATIONAL PERU DENOUNCES VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN VENEZUELA Peru denounced before the Human Rights Council of the United Nations (UN) thesystematic violation of human rights in Venezuela, informed the Peruvian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Néstor Popolizio. READ MORE HERE