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Rare 500-year-old freeze-dried potatoes unearthed at Inca coastal site
- June 14, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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Archaeologists digging at an Inca site on the arid coast of southern Peru have unearthed two rare, roughly 500-year-old freeze-dried potatoes. The potatoes are among the only ones found in more than a century and would have been transported across the empire from the freezing peaks of the Andes.
Originally published at Phys.org