Two small, wrinkled lumps of potato were found buried inside a ceramic jar on the floor of an ancient storage room on the arid southern coast of Peru, and they turned out to be roughly 500 years old, dating back to the height of the Inca Empire. The potatoes are a form of traditional Andean freeze-dried food known as chuño, and their discovery at a coastal site is what makes the find so archaeologically significant.

Two small, wrinkled lumps of potato were found buried inside a ceramic jar on the floor of an ancient storage room on the arid southern coast of Peru, and they turned out to be…

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