Scientists from the Silesian University of Technology are taking part in international research of the Machu Picchu area in Peru. The project, led by Dr Eng. Andrzej Rakowski from the Institute of Physics – CND, deals with establishing the chronology of the Inca conquest in the Cordillera Vilcabamba area.

Work under the project “Chronology of the Inca expansion at Coldillera de Vilcabamba” is financed by the National Science Center. The researchers want to take around 100 samples and subject them to radiocarbon analysis. The Polish institutions responsible for the project are Gliwice Radiocarbon Laboratory of the Silesian University of Technology and the Andean Research Center of the University of Warsaw.

Prof. Mariusz Ziółkowski from the Andean Research Center says that the cooperation of this unit with the Silesian University of Technology has been going on for over 30 years, and was started by the late Prof. Mieczysław Pazdur.

“We started to collect a radiocarbon database, which now has 5,200 dates for the entire Andean area”, says Prof. Ziółkowski.

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