Drones take to the air for archaeology in Peru

08/19/2013

Archaeologists at Peru’s Catholic University are using custom-made drones to help map sites associated with the 1,300-year-old Moche civilization, which pre-dates the rise of the Incas. The ruins of ancient cities lie along the Peruvian coast north of Lima, around San Idelfonso and San Jose del Moro, but they’ve deteriorated so much that they’re hard to make out with the human eye.

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