[Aztlan] OLDEST KNOWN STRUCTURE IN ANCIENT PERU UNCOVERED

[michael ruggeri]

Listeros,

Another listero sent this story out from El Comercio in Spanish  
earlier. Here is the story translated;

Archaeologists have found the oldest known structures in Peru dating  
back to 5,500 years ago; it is a sunken circular plaza in the coastal  
zone of Casma. Another structure was added to it 2000 years later.  
The site is called Sechin Bajo. The builders had advanced knowledge  
of architecture and construction. There is a bas relief on one wall  
with feline and serpent elements and an executioner who hold a knife  
in one hand and a serpent in the other.

Monsters and Critics has the translated El Comercio story with a  
photo here;
http://science.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1392796.php/ 
Scientists_discover_ruins_in_Peru_dating_5500_years

I have made a tiny URL here;
http://tinyurl.com/344vn6

Mike Ruggeri



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