Temple built 4,000 years ago unearthed in Peru


	Temple built 4,000 years ago unearthed in Peru

wildcat

11-11-2007 3:11 AM

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11-11-2007 4:24 PM

invictus

Amazing discovery. A couple of years ago Ruth Shady unearthed the 5,000 year-old Caral near Lima and now Walter Alva follows the suit. I wonder what those orthodox voices of established archaeology will say now, after sticking to the conservative theory for decades, which gave no likelihood to an advanced civilization in Americas prior to 1500 BCE.

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                        LIMA (Reuters) - 
A 4,000-year-old temple filled with murals
has been unearthed on the northern coast of <SPAN id="lw_1194749349_0" class="yshortcuts">Peru</SPAN>, making it one
of the oldest finds in the Americas, a leading archaeologist
said on Saturday.                        
                        </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071111/sc_nm/peru_archaeology_dc"><P>The temple, inside a larger ruin, includes a staircase that
leads up to an altar used for fire worship at a site scientists
have called Ventarron, said Peruvian archaeologist Walter Alva,
who led the dig.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071111/sc_nm/peru_archaeology_dc"><P>It sits in the <SPAN id="lw_1194749349_1" class="yshortcuts">Lambayeque</SPAN> valley, near the ancient Sipan
complex that Alva unearthed in the 1980s. Ventarron was built
long before Sipan, about 2,000 years before Christ, he said.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071111/sc_nm/peru_archaeology_dc"><P>"It's a temple that is about 4,000 years old," Alva,
director of the Museum Tumbas Reales (Royal Tombs) of Sipan,
told Reuters by telephone after announcing the results of
carbon dating at a ceremony north of <SPAN id="lw_1194749349_2" class="yshortcuts">Lima</SPAN> sponsored by Peru's
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