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<< Our Photo Pages >> El Castillo de Huarmey - Pyramid / Mastaba in Peru

Submitted by davidmorgan on Friday, 28 June 2013  Page Views: 4268

Multi-periodSite Name: El Castillo de Huarmey
Country: Peru
NOTE: This site is 3.85 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Pyramid / Mastaba
Nearest Town: Huarmey
Latitude: 10.061403S  Longitude: 78.125889W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
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1Awful
0No data.
 4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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 3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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El Castillo de Huarmey submitted by Andy B : A Wari pyramid-mausoleum dating from the 8th or 9th century CE. Image credit: http://www.perutoptours.com Site in Peru (Vote or comment on this photo)
A Wari pyramid-mausoleum dating from the 8th or 9th century CE.

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Note: The first unlooted royal tomb of its kind is unearthed in Peru
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First Unlooted Royal Tomb of Its Kind Unearthed in Peru by davidmorgan on Friday, 28 June 2013
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Three queens were buried with golden treasures, human sacrifices.

It was a stunning discovery: the first unlooted imperial tomb of the Wari, the ancient civilization that built South America's earliest empire between 700 and 1000 A.D. Yet it wasn't happiness that Milosz Giersz felt when he first glimpsed gold in the dim recesses of the burial chamber in northern Peru.

Giersz, an archaeologist at the University of Warsaw in Poland, realized at once that if word leaked out that his Polish-Peruvian team had discovered a 1,200-year-old "temple of the dead" filled with precious gold and silver artifacts, looters would descend on the site in droves. "I had a nightmare about the possibility," says Giersz.

So Giersz and project co-director Roberto Pimentel Nita kept their discovery secret. Digging quietly for months in one of the burial chambers, the archaeologists collected more than a thousand artifacts, including sophisticated gold and silver jewelry, bronze axes, and gold tools, along with the bodies of three Wari queens and 60 other individuals, some of whom were probably human sacrifices.

Read more at National Geographic.
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