3,500-Year-Old City Located in Peruvian Andes

Archaeology Magazine ^ | July 9, 2025 | editors / unattributed

[SunkenCiv]

Aerial view of Penico, Peru

Peruvian Ministry of Culture

[SunkenCiv]

[Paladin2]

Killroy was there first?

[gundog]

Looks like the crash site of the USS Enterprise.

[George from New England]

You should get a job writing for the Bee !

[MomwithHope]

Pic on the left looks like Pepe.

[ClearCase_guy]

Feels like a Lovecraft story. The Plateau of Leng is generally considered to be in Asia, near Tibet, but in fact it’s location is nebulous and it could be anywhere. Perhaps in the Andes.

[Presbyterian Reporter]

I had the opportunity to visit Caral in 2017.

Like this site, the Caral area is pretty void of vegetation.

Maybe back then it looked better, but I wondered how anyone could have survived there.

[central_va]

A fixer upper.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

It would have been warmer and wetter 3,500 years ago.

That would have been about the time of the Minoan Warm Period.

[SunkenCiv]

That’s what happens when those Federation jokers mess around with time travel.

[SunkenCiv]

🤪

[SunkenCiv]

I think the Plateau of Leng can be located, just look offshore for the Isles of Lengerhans.

[JZelle]

Paging Doug McClure!

[tumblindice]

I hope they didn’t do any head-lopping or open heart surgery.
Those Mayans were real cut ups. Who would want to visit them?

[minnesota_bound]

Our ancestors kept losing cities...

[newfreep]

Paging Doug McClure!

Is he related to the actor, Troy McClure?

[microgood]

I wonder what the elevation of Penico, Peru is?

[Adder]

[OldHarbor]

Pic on the left looks like Pepe.

From the link in the article.

Facades of some of the site’s structures bear painted reliefs made of clay and grass that depict part-human, part-amphibian beings. “These strange, uncanny creatures are really unusual,” says Trever. “In one, a frog seems to be coming out of the stone with cartoonlike hands. There’s nothing else like that.”