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.
Source: [Phys.org](https://phys.org/news/2026-06-rare-year-dried-potatoes-unearthed.html)