Newly Found Peruvian Pyramids Belong to a Mysterious Civilization

The history of Peru involves more than the Inca civilization. Pyramid remains have been found at Piura (on the northern Peruvian coast), by construction crews, in January. Now, a team from the Peruvian National Institute of Culture (INC) has announced that the site, 2 mi (3.2 km) long and 1 mi (1.6 km) wide, belonged to the ancient Vicús, a pre-Hispanic civilization that inhabited that coastal desert from 200 B.C to 300 A.D. As Vicus sites have been heavily looted along the time, very few artif... Read »

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