As I always say, we still have further to discover traces of past cultures that lived in a corner of our land, as is also true that perhaps not all it might be discovered by some hidden jungle, dense forests, jungles, desert sand ... as the pyramid rediscovered recently in Egypt.

ENIE Reading Magazine, in a note published this new discovery in northern Peru, where Peruvian and German archaeologists discovered a huge complex of about 5500 years. Located at Sechin Bajo, in the valley of Casma (located 370 kilometers north of Lima).

According to the archaeologists in charge of finding the building was built about 5500 years ago, has found that circular courtyards in the lower strata of the excavations. This complex may be regarded as the oldest monumental architecture in the central Andean area, "say the researchers.

On the lower was built later (between the years 2100 and 1600 BC) building an open, almost square, between 35 and 40 meters. It has nine rooms lined, which archaeologists believe they may have had some ritual function. Almost adjoining this building is the most interesting finding of the complex: a stone and adobe construction of 125 by 150 meters in a good state of preservation, which contains four internal courtyards in line and downstream from the smallest up to largest at the bottom.

Latter, larger and with walls about 5 meters high covered with adobe, opens to a plaza of some 20,000 square meters. The excavation of the courtyard has also brought to light large reliefs on its walls, unique in the region, with figures in front position, they have open arms and seem to participate in a ritual dance or a procession.

In his right hand extended to hold an object could be a hub of war and his left hand hung a round piece, also unidentified, which leaves a snakehead. According to reports provided by the archaeologists also discovered that lack this function fulfilled archeological find in Peru.

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