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lana Cordy-Collins was about to make an amazing discovery. She was part of the small group from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) that went on an archaeological dig that day in 1991. The dig took place in the village of San José de Moro, on the north coast of Peru. Machu Picchu (pictured at left) is the most famous dig in Peru. The scientists from UCLA wanted to find another important site. Cordy-Collins was an archaeologist, which meant that she often found very old items that revealed facts about long-dead people and ancient civ- ilizations. That day, she found something she had known about for years. She had even written about it two decades earlier, for her master’s degree. She just hadn’t thought at the time that it was real.

WORDS TO UNDERSTAND dig  not the verb, but the noun, which means a site undergoing archaeological excavation discipline  in science, this means a particular field of study

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