The Lost Pyramids Of Caral

The Lost Pyramids Of Caral. This is an incredible find.

The magnificent ancient city of pyramids at Caral in Peru hit the headlines in 2001.

The site is a thousand years older than the earliest known civilization in the Americas and, at 2,627 BC, is as old as the pyramids of Egypt.

Many now believe it is the fabled missing link of archaeology - a 'mother city'. If so, then these extraordinary findings could finally answer one of the great questions of archaeology: why did humans become civilized?

A lot has been discussed since this was put out. From Seattle Times (December 23, 2004): "A Peruvian site previously reported as the oldest city in the Americas actually is a much larger complex of as many as 20 cities with huge pyramids and sunken plazas sprawled over three river valleys, researchers report."

Construction began in 3000 B.C (300-400 years before the people of Kemet/Egypt began the Pyramid of Djoser). These cities flourished peacefully for more than 1,200 years.

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• Caral
• Peru
• Pyramids
• Ancient
• City
• Egypt
• Americas
• Civilization
• Lost
• Archaeology

[Iblis135]

@HardWarUK Agreed! Ancient man isn't given enough credit in my book, why we think we are smarter than ancient man is over my head. We sit in our house watching a flashing box with colors all day, while they had memorized the sky and knew of the movemment of the planets and built these monuments to reflect that. That is proof of absolute genius in my humble opinion.

[HardWarUK]

Buildings covered in language and with drawings of animals have been found in Turkey, that are over 12,000 years old, so I don't think we were just herding goats 5,0000 years ago!.