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<< News >> Ancient Peruvian city has secrets yet to be unearthed

Submitted by Andy B on Saturday, 21 October 2006  Page Views: 1699

DigsCountry: Peru Type: Ancient Village or Settlement

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Caral submitted by bat400 : Site in Barranca Provence, Peru. View of most of the city with ceremonial area in the foreground right. The large residential and working area is to the west beyond the pyramids. Major structures are labeled. Photo by bat400, Aug 31, 2018. (Vote or comment on this photo)
A sudden wind gust blows eerily down from rocky Andean foothills, kicking up a cinnamon-colored cloud over the moonscape of ruins that is the oldest city in the Americas. The sky is a crisp blue. All around in the Supe River Valley are lush fields of onion and corn.

We are in Caral, three hours and nearly 5,000 years from contemporary Lima, Peru’s bustling capital, and we’ve spent the last half hour or so on a bumpy drive from the coast, along a dirt road blocked periodically by bleating herds of goats and sheep.

Caral made headlines in 2001 when researchers carbon-dated material from the city back to 2627 B.C. It is a must-see for archaeology enthusiasts.

Even though the ruins in the dusty, wind-swept Supe River Valley don’t approximate in majesty the mountains that surround the famed Inca ruins at Machu Picchu, they are an unforgettable sight under the glow of a fiery sunset.

Dotted with pyramid temples, sunken plazas, housing complexes and an amphitheater, Caral is one of 20 sites attributed to the ancient Caral-Supe culture that run almost linearly from Peru’s central coast inland up the Andes.

The ruins changed history when researchers proved that a complex urban center in the Americas thrived as a contemporary to ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt — 1,500 years earlier than previously believed.

More: Worcester Telegram (Assoc. Press)
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