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The 5,000-year-old Sacred City of Caral in Peru is the oldest urban center unearthed in the Americas. Also known as Caral-Supe or Caral-Chupacigarro, the city was discovered only within the last hundred years and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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The Sacred City of Caral-Supe, one of the most important and little-known cultures of the American continent, is located in the province of Barranca, Lima Region, Peru.

“It constitutes the oldest manifestation of civilization in Peru and on the American continent due to its 5,000 years of age. It is made up of 32 monumental buildings, included in a complex system of settlements that show a strong religious ideology, among which are distinguished ceremonial buildings, residential sectors for people of different social rank, a set of minor temples and production workshops. Caral led a settlement system that brought together 17 similar, although smaller, sites located in the Supe Valley.

“It expresses the complexity and development of an early socio-political and economic organization model during the Late Archaic Period (5000-3800 BP) originated independently by the Andean societies that inhabited this small fertile valley on the central Peruvian coast.”

Information:

World Heritage Sites of Peru. Culture Ministry.

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Peru’s Ancient Pyramids Older Than Egypt’s!

When we think of ancient pyramids, the mind often wanders to Egypt’s iconic Giza Plateau. However, long before the Great Pyramid was erected, an ancient civilization in Peru was building monumental pyramids that remain lesser-known yet equally awe-inspiring.

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Astronomy and landscape in the city of Caral, the oldest city in the Americas

A team of researchers, led by the Instituto de Ciencias del Patrimonio (Incipit-CSIC) and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), in collaboration with the team from the Arqueological Zone of Caral (Perú) led by Dr. Ruth Shady Solís, has established the relation between the position of the monuments of the Supe Culture (Perú), their orientations, and some astronomical and topographic features, which opens the way to the analysis of the way the inhabitants of this valley conceived space and time 5000 years ago. The results of the study have just been published in the journal Latin American Antiquity.