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Judi Lynn

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Tue Oct 23, 2018, 02:20 AM Oct 2018

Peruvian archeologists discover pre-Columbian statues [View all]

23 OCT 2018



Archeologists in Peru have found 20 800-year-old wooden statues in the largest pre-Columbian site in the Americas, Culture Minister, Patricia Balbuena and researchers revealed on Monday.

The statues, all but one of which were in a good condition, were found in the Chan Chan archeological site: a city that was once the capital of the Chimu Kingdom and pre-dated the Inca Empire.

Located close to the north Peruvian modern city of Trujillo, Can Chan was comprised of 10 citadels, or walled palaces, in its six kilometer squared (2.3 square miles) center of a wider city that measured 20 square kilometers.


Each statue measures 70-centimeters (27.5 inches) in height and they were aligned in niches in the wall of a ceremonial corridor decorated with high mud reliefs in a thousand-year-old building.

More:
https://www.afp.com/en/news/3954/peruvian-archeologists-discover-pre-columbian-statues-doc-1a816o2


Would you like to see the Chan Chan archeological site in Peru? You need to see many images. Just one couldn't do justice:

https://tinyurl.com/ydgqudoy

OMG.

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