Man Vandalizes 500-Year-Old Artifact in Peru, Causing ‘Irreversible Damage’

A man was arrested in Peru after damaging a 500-year-old artifact known as the 12-angle-stone, Peruvian officials have announced. The incident took place at 12:49 a.m. on February 19, when a man “apparently intoxicated and out of his mind, used a metal object to attack the stone element, causing stone fragments to fall, in six visible impacts on the emblematic stone structure,” according to a press release from Cusco’s Decentralized Directorate of Culture.Peruvian National Poli