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Is Caral, Peru, the Oldest City in the Americas?
On a high, dry terrace overlooking a green river valley in the Andes Mountains ... to dub it a World Heritage Site in 2009. Caral sits in the Supe Valley, a region of Peru's high desert nestled ...
South America's oldest civilization: Archaeologists discover new Caral-era Pyramid in Peru
The building at Chupacigarro reveals three superimposed platforms and stone walls marked by large 'huancas' at the corners ...
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Ancient city in Peru among hottest destinations? Somebody forgot to tell the tourists
The challenge for the Sacred City of Caral-Supe is that it is located a little more than 100 miles north of Lima on a dusty desert plateau overlooking the Supe River, but effectively in the middle ...
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Facing multiple threats, Peruvian archaeologists remain determined to research the Americas' oldest known civilisation
The Sacred City of Caral-Supe was declared a Unesco World Heritage site in 2009. Yet this past October, as the Caral archaeological site celebrated its 30th anniversary, its researchers were ...