Cerro Sechin Temples     (Flash Option)   Sechin Temple in Peru is probably one of the most ancient ceremonial centers in America dating 3500 BC or more; that means 5500 years old and will be no surprised that this cipher will reach the 6000 level because there is plenty of ancient Peru history unexplored buried under the sand.
Knowing that America was populate by Homo sapiens between 15 to 20 thousand years ago by people who came from Siberia. Therefore, Native Americas ancient roots had little or no knowledge concerning mud bricks construction; it is amazing to know that in such a short time in Sechin was developed an advanced techniques of construction when that type of development took to other civilizations many more millenniums to evolve up to Sechin standards.

Caral Pyramids     (Flash Option)   a 4600 years old American Pyramids Palaces Conglomerate is located 200 kilometers north of Lima, at 23 Km west of Supe, built during the third millennium B.C, a huge urban conglomerate assembled mostly by pyramids, astonishes for its early development and size not equaled even a few millenniums later by other later cultures that flourished much later in the Americas. Radiocarbon readings at this city gives a start around 2627 B.C. at times of the Great Giza Pyramids.
Caral is like a rectangular amphitheatre of enormous capacity surrounded by six pyramids around, capable to housed a large population as well accommodated thousands of people during festivities and commerce practices. Moreover, in the Supe valley perimeter were also other 17 urban places that added to an immense human conglomerate that also gathered people from adjacent regions.

Cotosh Temple     (Flash Option)   Kotosh or Cotosh in Huanuco Peru is a 4 000 years old stone temple and ceremony complex that include a small pyramid, built in the eastern side of the Andes Mountains.
The interior of this temple is just a room with a sunken square floor at the middle and a wide side walks around at the entrance level height. Inside of the temple at each side of the room and in front of the door, there are three niches or false doors of the same size than the entrance door, together fallow the directions of the four cardinal points.
From the mountain on top can be seen a small artificial mound made of mud materials known as Huaca, it is a small pyramid part of the complex, they were used for burials as well for certain ritualistic ceremonies.
It is possible that all this was part of a commercial trading post between the Coastal and the Amazonian regions.

Kunturwasi or Kuntur Wasi Temple, Cajamarca     (Flash Option)   at San Pablo Cajamarca Peru is a temple fortress; a magnificent ceremonial place linked to Chavin civilization. Their construction phase started about 1100 to 700 BC and lasted as far the year 50 BC. It is located fallowing eastward the Jequetepeque River toward the Andes Mountains close to what today is modem Cajamarca city and Pacasmayo in the Northern Peruvian coast. In this archeological place also is a small but excellent museum that houses excellent gold object from the local complex excavations.
Because at the time of the finding many condors were site in the area this name was made by two separated words Kuntur and Wasi, meaning Condor’s House in Quechua the language that Incas spook and as such it is only a resent name made out of imagination, its real name is totally ignored there is no information concerning what language the Chavin civilization spook

Chavin de Huantar Temple     (Flash Option)   Chavin de Huantar temple 900BC-200 A.C. was the most influential, developed early civilization center of ancient Peru a stone temple built in honor to a Lion headed divinity facing East, standing in an eight points star shaped room, where people brought presents as far Ecuador in the north and Chile in the south countries more than two thousand kilometer apart. Also was the center of the most outstanding art style that deeply influenced most of the territory that covers actual Peru and lasted for more than a millennium, fading around the third century of our present Era.
This temple started to be built about 900BC, first was made a U shaped building at the extreme left or north side of the building now partly covered, in the interior of the building was placed the “Lanzon” a statue like of a strange divinity of a man with feline face.
About 500 BC were added the left side of the building built over the right wing of the previous temple whose left wing was covered.

Tucume Pyramids     (Flash Option)  Tucume Lambayeque Peru was a religious ceremonial complex made up by 26 pyramids built around La Raya (Stingray) Mountain about one thousand years ago by Naylamp (a personage that came from a far away place by sea) descendants. It has been proven that in this area there is intermixed Japanese and other Asiatic ADN but there is no proof that particular family came from a precise country.
These complex is located around 700 kilometers north of Lima, 60 kilometer north from Chiclayo, in the axis east to west between San Jose to Chaparri Mountain, a place full of legends and mythology. San Jose today is small fishing seaports thought to be in the neighborhood where was the legendary point of disembark of the mythological founder of Lamballeque Naylamp a great ruler with godly attributes.

Paramonga Temple Frotress     (Flash Option)   Paramonga Peru was a fortress originally built by the Chimu kingdom 1100 – 1400 AC was made by superimposed structures similar to a Step Pyramid assembly.

Paramonga was supplied by sea with reed and balsa as means of transportation, this barges arrived to a nearby mountain known today by “De la Horca” Mountain located west of the fortress; from there the goods were brought to the fortress by a walled corridor that united both places and blocked the road to the north. This fortress is located by the river Paramonga at a distance of 200 Kilometers from Lima and about 300 kilometers from modern Trujillo, at that time the Cha Chan the capital city of the Chimu; they were moon worshipers and at that time they controlled most of the coastal region of actual Peru.

Chan Chan Chimu Capital City     (Flash Option)   Chan Chan, Peru was the capital city of the ancient Chimu or Chimor Empire founded by Tacaymano a lord that came from the sea and brought much of their culture. This mythological semi-god arrived to Pacatmanu a ancient city close where today is Pacasmayo, his saga is similar to Naylamp legend in Lambayeque, located one hundred mile north of Chan Chan; it is obvious that these stories have the same root and probably they were mapped over an older tradition of a previous civilization.
However what stands out concerning this place is that in a few hundred years Chan Chan had a tremendous boon, became the biggest city in South America with a heavy populated center area between 2 or 3 square miles and a total periphery is about the eight square miles.

Pyramids or Huacas Trujillo     (Flash Option)   The Huaca del Sol (Sun), Huaca de La Luna (Moon) and Arco Iris (Rainbow) in Trujillo Peru were Mochica and Chimu palace, temple tomb pyramids. The Huaca del Sol or Sun Temple is about 380 m long and has a present height 41 m, originally was 50 meters high, the biggest structure built in adobe in the world; probably the envy of many Egyptian pharaohs of the “Middle Empire” since they tried to build a pyramid solely of adobe evoking the Osirian rituals related to mud and resurrection but crumbled; they had to conform building their pyramids with adobe using a stone structure to sustain.
The Huaca del Dagon also known Arco Iris, In English, Rainbow Temple for the reason at the side there are in relief representations of seven symbolic water arcs, this a trapezoidal building like the Egyptian mastabas but with two floors, original had also a temple on top made of more rudimentary materials.

Huanuco Viejo     (Flash Option)   Huanuco Viejo also known as Huanuco Pampa or Huanuco Marca Peru was the ancient capital city of the Chinchaysuyu the Northern Inca territorial division of the Tawantinsuyo, a name by which the Incas referred to their whole territory or kingdom in their own language.
From an especial emplacement on top of the “Ushno” cam also be seen a series of trapezoidal door, they aligning with the sun raise in certain date that most likely indicates the time to shear the llamas and alpacas that were brought to the central plaza around this edification.
This fact denotes a great knowledge and concerning towards astronomy and advance construction techniques, meticulous planning and a superb design fallowing astronomical yearly movements.

Cuzco Incas Capital City     (Flash Option)   Koricancha Sun Temple Cuzco Peru means the "Golden Field" it is the most outstanding Inca stonemasonry work but mostly the stones were covered with pure gold plates, also were there an abundant number of statues and altars made of solid gold, the principal object of reverence was a colossal golden disk representing their sun divinity, it was placed in a form that reflected the sun rays during the Solstice event.
Sacsahuaman or Sacsayhuaman was Cuzco's imperial (last Inca period) fortress its construction is credited to Inca Pachacutec.
It is a Quechua word composed by two words probably saksay that means satisfaction and huaman in English is hawk or falcon. Originally Cuzco city had a perimeter shape that resembles a lion with Sacsahuaman as the figure's head, very estrange because the ruling city had these two characteristics Feline and Hawk.

Cuzco Reguion     (Flash Option)   Tipon, Moon temple and Wiracocha palace are stone masonry archeological conglomerates located in Cuzco Peru region. Tipon Peru apparently is a huge Inca water ceremonial complex with pyramidal terraces, canals and artificial water falls as well a number of buildings.
The Moon temple actually is not a just a big temple but a huge area with a great number of shrines with false doors or niches carved in the stone wall of the mountains.
Wiracocha or Viracocha place complex also was a compound of temples as well storage rooms; most of walls were made with three different construction materials most likely representing the three heavenly levels that Incas thought how the afterlife world was divided.

Cuzco Vicinity     (Flash Option)   Ollantaytambo Peru is a citadel, located in the Urubamba region, located approximately 60 km northwest of Cuzco, at an altitude over 9000 feet above sea level. Its access entrance is flanked by a great number of terraces, the top that rather than have the aspect of an army fortification but for the reason based on its ornamentations, resembles more the looks of a temple
Kenco is a worshiping temple most likely also employed for astronomical observations, has a semi circular terrace with niche resembling seats
Pisac was the cemetery of the nobles, at the entrance in a mountain is a huge niche carved in the mountain stone walls, at the right side of this mountain was a garrison of troops that took care of the preservation of the place.

Pucara Puno     (Flash Option)   Pucara Puno Peru, has its origin in the Late Formative Period (200 BC – 200 AD) around Titicaca Lake in the Collao Plateau, was one of an Aymara speaking cultures that flourished in that region, the predecessors of the Thiahuanaco Civilization (200 AC _1200 AC) that covered most of the Bolivian and Peruvian, actual mountain and costal territories. Thiahuanaco was the central matrix culture that exerted great influence in the development of all the civilizations that prospered during this present era in central western South America.
Its museum guards a very interesting stone sculptures, carved steles, colorful ceramics and many interesting objects with their special style and symbolism. Pucara is famous also for its present ceramic artisans, standing out their artistic terracotta bulls known as “Toritos de Pucara” that have a very special stylistic form.

Sillustani Chulpas  (Flash Option)   and Amaru Muro Puno Region; Sillustani also written as Silustani Puno Peru is a Colla civilization necropolis, these people used Chullpas or Chulpas, wich area hollow tubular towersof stone bricks cut and polished with exalted craftsmanship made for funerary purposes.
Amaru Muro is an enormous False Door carved in big flat stone surface of Hayu Marca mountain about the same distance from Puno than Sillustani but in opposite direction. A special road with multiple steps passes through two quadrangular stone just before arriving to this ceremonial place, it resemble an immense niche of 7 by 7 meters with a small entrance at the center bottom facing east.
Looks like a an hypothetic door to the land of the gods a point of communication with the afterlife, a similar function as the niches or false doors found in or outside the Egyptian mastabas and temples.

Ancient Peruvian Jewelry     (only Flash Option)   Ancient Chavin, Mochica and Thiahuanaco civilizations gold and precious stone Jewelry was likely made for funerary use and ceremonial events or offerings as for Ancient Peruvians the afterlife was more important than the present life, for such reason they massed all their richness and best garments for their burials thinking that they were going to enjoy them during their eternal life.

The jewelry probably was taken as likely a symbol of status, an amulet and a protecting devise in afterlife do the enormous amount of symbolism found in them and its elaboration probably went though special ceremonies performed to empower the jewels devoted to thier divine cosmogony.

Chavin Art     (Flash Option)   Chavin Art diffusion center was from a ancient temple built about 900 BC at “Chavin de Huantar” now a days a modern city from where this art style got its name. Its ancient origin probably evolved from Sechin because some of its early human representations have the same shape as similar figures in the Sechin temple built about one thousand years early.
Chavin artist used different materials for their manifestations; they used ceramics, cloth for their garments, building and decorative stone, gold jewelry, sea shells and a variety of other resources it was a totally developed artistic civilization.
Chavin Art style is the mayor art characteristics that ever influenced most of ancient Peru’s territory from the tip north to what is Ica today an area south of Lima probably around 200 to 300 kilometers or even more, it is hard to precise because with modern systems of investigation, every day there is a new surprise in relation to up coming discoveries in Peru.

Mochica Art     (Flash Option)   Mochica art outstands in the world for their excellent ceramics know as huacos, a Peruvian civilization that developed in Moche valley Peru, has its origin in La Libertad, Peru’s north coastal region, their territory covered the area whose limits where within, Chiclayo city at the North to Casma vicinity in the south. This civilization flourished during the 2nd and 7th century of our present era.
Their ceramics barely have a thickness of just a few millimeters are the lightest and finest terracotta’s ever made in ancient Peru and probably in the world. As a general rule, their ceramic were painted ochre and white or totally black probably representing the day and the night, their decoration has beautiful symbolic designs related to their mythology it is possible that there is a writing in many of this potteries.

Naylamp Legend    (only Flash Option)   The native people of Lambayeque say that their origin was very ancient, from times when Naylamp a great leader and his wife Ceterni arrived from the North in a balsa raft fallowed by a great number of this embarkations.
Naylamp and his followers landed by a river branch named Faquisllanga close to where is located now San Jose. Right away they started to build a temple or “Huaca” (in their original language) that they named Chot, today known by Huaca Chotuna. They also brought an green stone idol of Naylamp, that they called LLampallec and is from these expression that came the name of Lambayeque a city that is close by and also the name of the Province where all this happened.

Chaparri Legend     (only Flash Option)   This legend took place in the north of Peru, more exactly in the region of Lambayeque. The names of the characters are now names of villages, also for Chaparri, which is today the name of a Mountain but was before the name of a village abandoned because of a water shortage; the only exception is “Collique”, Chaparri’s wife, which today is the name of a lagoon. His disciples were named Pátapo, Yacutapuy, Niepos, Cyntiapu and Sayapu also the names of some present cities and his brother’s name was Yanahuanca.
This legend may have occurred during the short period of the Inca domination on the Chimú people. The Incas attacked the Chimú with more than 30,000 soldiers coming from the South, but they had to recede in Paramonga. Since the Incas were unable to conquer the Chimús by force, with help of the people from Cajamarca, the Incas were able to cut the water supply coming from the Andes to Lambayeque; reason why the lagoon Collique dried up.

Chankillo or Chanquillo Astronomical Sun Observatory (Combined Flash & Html Option)   Since very remote time Men depended on animal emigrations for hunting and later on seasons for cultivation, all human inhabitant of this planet has been looking towards the sky for the movements of the heavenly bodies to be able to measure time.
By the time that Chanquillo or Chankillo was built about 2300 years ago, close to the actual city of Casma in northern Peru they had develop a very sophisticated system made of 13 columns to be able to precise exact dates during the year by sun tracking during the Sun Solstices and Equinoxes this observation were made using Columns; because of its considerable dimensions likely marks a great happening or event in ancient Peru that brought to the place a great number of assistants from far places

Thiahuanaco Bolivia     (Flash Option)   Thiahuanaco in Bolivia is famous for Kalasasaya or Kalasaya temple and Acapana Pyramid; the Tiahuanaco civilization had at Wuari or Huari Ayacucho Peru a commercial center but the principal religious irradiating point was at Tiahuanaco Bolivia. To reach the entrance of the Kalasasaya temple had to climb by a stone stair flanked by two massive square columns denoting its great solar religious inclinations, since this entrance aligned with the solstice and had other peculiarities to make solar observation permitted the use of this place as a calendar.
Tiahuanaco civilization flourished in actual territories of Peru and Bolivia from 200 AC till 1200 AC but reached its maximum splendor between the years 500 AC and 900 AC about 1000 AC started to loose its influence.

Sun Island Bolivia     (Flash Option)   Sun Island Bolivia, "La Isla del Sol" is an Island in Titicaca Lake in the Bolivian side territory that probably was the inspiration source of the Thiahuanaco and Inca legends that mention that their god or mythological godly rulers that were credited of coming to life out of the sacred waters of this Lake.
False trapezoidal doors and doors are very common during Tiahuanaco and Inca civilizations nevertheless it is a characteristic that also was practiced by the Cotosh civilization about 4000 years ago and in between is very to find an example. The angle of the trapezoid as this figure comes closer to the shape of the triangle probable represents a higher rank or social position or the distinctiveness of the place.

Moon Island Bolivia     (Flash Option)   Moon Island in Titicaca Lake Bolivia was a Tiahuanaco civilization temple meant to be a moon observation center, tracking its cycles and movements during the month and year laps as well during long periods of time since they new that the moon was a very important weather indicator in relation to time when to plant and harvest and other needs to their crops.
It surprises because is not usual to find in the Andean region at this time a worshiping building made of so much adobe masonry.
Probable form the relation of astronomy to agriculture, thy reason that all the things that were related to sciences and the knowledge to master them belonged to god.