Archaeologists in Peru unveil 3,500-year-old city that linked coast and Andes • FRANCE 24 English

200 km north of Lima, a once thriving trade hub, Penigo, a 3,500y old city, is believed to have connected Pacific Coast communities with those living in the Andes Mountains and the Amazon Basin. Penika has been chronologically identified as dating back to at least 1800 BC. As you can see, it’s a long period. Pineigu is located near Corral, recognized as the oldest civilization in the Americas, home to 32 monumental structures, including pyramids, urban settlements, and is considered a contemporary of early civilizations in Egypt, India, and China. In many years of research, archaeologists uncovered clay sculptures, animal figures, and skeletons, shedding light on what became of the ancient civilization. This urban center is crucial for understanding the Corral civilization’s climate change impact and recovery through interactions with spread populations in Peru’s mega diverse territories crossed by the Andes. Peru is already home to many of the America’s most significant archaeological discoveries, including Machu Picchu in the Andes and the mysterious Nazca lines edged in the desert along the coast.

Archaeologists on Thursday unveiled a 3,500-year-old city in Peru that likely served as a trading hub linking Pacific coast cultures with those in the Andes and Amazon, flourishing around the same time as early civilizations in the Middle East and Asia.
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31 comments

  5. The history of indigenous people ist millenary. How sad that this probably be turn in a commodity were the white elites will own all the companies around the extraction of tourism but the the population will barely see their salaries as tourist and gastronomic service staff. Agh

  12. How do they know the city, not really, is 3,500-year-old? They don't, but they almost automatically date everything from 3,500 to 4,000 years, as they did with the pyramids at Giza. Why? Because that timeline fits their made-up official story of civilization Earth, one meant to keep people in the dark about their true origin and about the true purpose of life. The Mayans, for example, a civilization in the same area of the planet, are on record that their civilization is hundreds to millions of years old. The real history of China begins hundreds of thousands of years ago. Those real dates do not fit though the story of creation in the Bible and the theory of evolution, with both being fallacies.

  13. Another landing site of the ancient mariners whose entire history and civilization was erased in the name of modern Chinese interests. Apparently the Peruvians source population/teachers from the sea were not Han Chinese which really throws a wrench in all our stories of how we came to be.

  14. Everybody thinks about Incas in Peru being one of the first great civilizations but maybe they actually threw all of Peruvian civilization back a couple thousand years and really repressed the great Peruvian history and people that was already there, but not made by the conquerors.

  17. Native Americans still do this they travel between North and south America. But it’s illegal now, when the real illegal came across the pond.

  22. I wish we could just go back in time and see ancient people and these ancient cities alive, with people moving around. Things were more spiritual and connected with the earth. I sometimes believe we went backwards in technology not forward!

  23. i believe ancient civilizations could astral project and could travel through portals. Thats how they taught each other to build pyramids and travel back and forth. How else did these civilizations all have in common to build temples and pyramids. They're portals!

  25. If their cities are that old why are they so 3rd world and lack any indication of progress in the modern age?! "Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord and the people He has chosen for His inheritance" – Psalms

  26. Somehow, outside of the Americas, people still think that there were only « savages » here before Europeans arrived. The irrigation techniques they were using and the methods use to transport were more elaborate and cleaner than what was being doing in the UK during the same time period.

  27. I just came home from Peru after visiting Machu Picchu and Ollantaytambo. Well, I guess I gotta go back again 😀

  28. That woman deserves the full support and recognition of the Peruvian government for her contributions to Peru.

  30. coral < monte verde CHILE
    Monte Verde is a Paleolithic archaeological site in the Llanquihue Province[1] in southern Chile, located near Puerto Montt, Los Lagos Region. The site is primarily known for Monte Verde II, dating to approximately 14,550–14,500 calibrated years Before Present (BP).

  31. Wish more people knew about this around the world, thanks from Peru, you will always be welcome here❤🇵🇪

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