Peruvian Pyramid Older Than Egypt, Civilization Rivals Sumerians In Age, 1200 Years Without War

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Overview of Caral. 

Source: Cultural Institution Pachayachachiq

 

This finding confirms that Peru is the oldest civilization in America and one of the four oldest high cultures of the world, according to historian Victor Colan Ormeño  as we can see in the table below:

ANCIENT CIVILIZATION 
1.Mesopotamia 3500 BC

2.Perú 3200 BC 
3.Egypt 3000 BC 
4.China 3000 BC 
 5.India 2600 BC
6.Crete 2000 BC 
7.México 1200 BC 
Moreover, Peru is one of the two oldest agricultural civilizations of the world, as we seen in the following table:

WORLD FIRST agricultural civilizations.

DISCOVERY CIVILIZATION OF AGRICULTURE 
8000 BC 1.Mesopotamia 
2.Perú 8000 BC 
7000 BC 3.China 
4.India 7000 BC 
6000 BC 5.México

Reaffirming the extraordinary antiquity of Peruvian civilization, the radiocarbon dates of the last thirty years have shown that Peru has the world’s oldest pyramids, as shown in the following table:

PYRAMID OLD COUNTRY

1. Idols 3702 BC Delos Huaca Peru 
2. Easel 3120 BC Peru 
3. Caral Peru 3000 BC 
4. Bandurria 3000 BC Peru 
5. Huaca of Sacrifice 2930 BC Peru 
6. The 2800 BC Galgada Peru 
7. 2700 BC Peru Tumshukaiko 
8. 2668 BC Sakkara Egypt 
9. Cheops Egypt 2580 BC 
2550 BC Egypt 10.Kefrén 
11.Micerino 2520 BC Egypt 
12.Huaca Rosada (Window) Peru 2500 BC 
2200 BC Ur 13.Zigurat Iraq 
14.Sechín Peru 1800 BC 
1200 BC Mexico 15.San Lorenzo.

Furthermore, we note that Caral, Peru was the most important city of the third millennium BC, in Peru and America and the first capital of the nation state of our country. It is also one of the first cities in the world as we can see in the table below:

OLD TOWN COUNTRY

1. 3200 BC Uruk Iraq 
2. Caral Peru 3000 BC 
3. Peru roughly 3000 BC 
4. Bandurria 3000 BC Peru 
5. 3000 BC Ur Iraq 
6. Lingjitan 3000 BC China 
7. Memphis 2850 BC Egypt 
8. 2600 BC Mohenjo Daro Pakistan 
9. 2600 BC Harappa Pakistan 
Peru 10.Moxeque 1800 BC 
1050 BC Israel 11.Jerusalén 
12.Monte Alban 500 BC Mexico

The above shows that Peru is one of the oldest civilizations in the world. This new reality is the result of sacrifice and exemplary work of Peruvian  and foreign archaeologists including  Ruth Shady Solis, Robert Feldman, Moseley, Thomas Pozorski, Richard Burger, Carlos Williams, Paul Kosok, Friedrich Engel, Roxana Gomez Cesar Cornejo, Alex Zuniga, Alejandro Chu, Alberto Bueno, Luis Guillermo Lumbreras, among others.

 

Remains of platform mound structures at Caral

Credit: Wikipedia

 

 The fame of Caral as the oldest pyramid complex might be shortlived, accoring to Philip Coppens. He says,  ”Archaeologists have found a 5,500-year-old ceremonial plaza at Sechin Bajo, in Casma, 229 miles north of Lima, the capital.” 

 

Sechin Bajo is an ancient stone plaza in Casma in the Andes foothills, 330 kilometers (210 mi) northwest of Lima, Peru

 

Detail from Sechin Bajo

 

The structure is one of the oldest surviving man-made buildings ever discovered in the Americas, dating to about 3500BC based on carbon dating. It may be one of the oldest buildings in the world.

Credit: Wikipedia

 

The discovery was made by a team of the Latin American Institute at the Freie University in Berlin, under the auspices of Prof. Dr. Peter Fuchs. It contained a platform pyramid that was originally possibly up to 100 metres tall. Carbon dating shows it is one of the oldest structures ever found in the Americas.

 

Sechin Bajo

Credit: Foros Peru  

 

Nearly 2,000 years later, another structure measuring 180 by 120 metres was added onto it. The discovery at Sechin Bajo means this pyramid complex is now even older than Caral.”  See more f;rom Pilip Coppen here

 

Rendering of Sechin Bajo as it would have looked when built

 

The Norte Chico civilization (also Caral or Caral-Supe civilization) was a complex pre-Columbian society that included as many as 30 major population centers in what is now the Norte Chico region of north-central coastal Peru. It is the oldest known civilization in the Americas and one of the six sites where civilization separately originated in the ancient world. It flourished between the 30th century BC and the 18th century BC.

Remains of the Caral pyramids in the arid Supe Valley

The alternative name, Caral-Supe, is derived from the Sacred City of Caral in the Supe Valley, a large and well-studied Norte Chico site. Complex society in Norte Chico arose a millennium after Sumer in Mesopotamia, was contemporaneous with the Egyptian pyramids, and predated the Mesoamerican Olmec by nearly two millennia.

Detail from Sechin Bajo 

 

 Credit: Amazing Notes