Caral

The site, called Caral, lies not in Egypt, but 120 miles north of Lima, Peru, and 12 miles inland from the Pacific Ocean in the foothills of the Andes Mountains.

New World Pyramids 2007

For example, there is this placed called Caral I did not mention it in my email.

we make plans 2006

(Chavin, Huari, Caral, Moche, Tiahuanaco, Inka, etc.) in Peru and in other places deserve admiration or whatever you want to call it, judging them by the standards of 4000 yrs ago or more.

Peru Update Bill Crider 2007

In 1994 Ruth Shady Solis, of the National University of San Marcos in Lima, began working fourteen miles inland from Aspero, at a site known as Caral.

1491: excerpts part 2 2009

(Chavin, Huari, Caral, Moche, Tiahuanaco, Inka, etc.) in Peru and in other places deserve admiration or whatever you want to call it, judging them by the standards of 4000 yrs ago or more.

Peru Update Bill Crider 2007

But around 3,600 years ago, an enormous earthquake -- Moseley estimates its magnitude at 8 or higher -- or series of earthquakes struck Caral and a nearby coastal settlement, Aspero, the archaeologist found.

Wiped Out by Climate Change and Earthquake Jan 2009

Haas and Creamer worked with the project in 2000 and helped establish Caral's antiquity: it was founded before 2600 B.C. While Shady continued work on Caral, Haas, Creamer, and Ruiz split off to investigate the Pitivilca, the next river to the north, and the Fortaleza, just north of the Pitivilca.

1491: excerpts part 2 2009

Shady's team uncovered seventeen riverside settlements, the second-biggest of which was Caral.

1491: excerpts part 2 2009

They found, Haas told me, major urban centers on a par with Caral in terms of monumental architecture, ceremonial structures, and residential architecture.

1491: excerpts part 2 2009

The largest so far excavated, the Pirámide Mayor at inland settlement Caral, measured more than 550 feet long, nearly 500 feet wide and rose in a series of steps nearly 100 feet high.

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