Posted on 01/21/2021 7:00:59 PM PST by SunkenCiv
...archeologist Ruth Shady, who discovered the Caral site in Peru, has been threatened with death if she doesn't abandon investigating its treasures...
"There are people who come and invade this site, which is state property, and they use it to plant," archeologist Daniel Mayta told AFP.
"It's hugely harmful because they're destroying 5,000-year-old cultural evidence." ...
Developed between 3,000 and 1,800 BC in an arid desert, Caral is the cradle of civilization in the Americas.
Its people were contemporaries of Pharaonic Egypt and the great Mesopotamian civilizations.
It pre-dates the far better known Inca empire by 45 centuries.
None of that mattered to the squatters, though, who took advantage of the minimal police surveillance during 107 days of lockdown to take over 10 hectares of the Chupacigarro archeological site and plant avocados, fruit trees and lima beans...
During the lockdown, several archeological pieces were looted in the area and in July police arrested two people for partially destroying a site containing mummies and ceramics.
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
CHURCH DESTROYED BY VOLCANO | EXPLORING VOLCAN PARICUTIN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxQ7Sscx2l8
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