How neat is this? Temple built 4,000 years ago unearthed in Peru

LIMA (Reuters) - A 4,000-year-old temple filled with murals has been unearthed on the northern coast of Peru, making it one of the oldest finds in the Americas, a leading archaeologist said on Saturday.

The temple, inside a larger ruin, includes a staircase that leads up to an altar used for fire worship at a site scientists have called Ventarron, said Peruvian archaeologist Walter Alva, who led the dig.

It sits in the Lambayeque valley, near the ancient Sipan complex that Alva unearthed in the 1980s. Ventarron was built long before Sipan, about 2,000 years before Christ, he said.

"It's a temple that is about 4,000 years old," Alva, director of the Museum Tumbas Reales (Royal Tombs) of Sipan, told Reuters by telephone after announcing the results of carbon dating at a ceremony north of Lima sponsored by Peru's government.

"What's surprising are the construction methods, the architectural design and most of all the existence of murals that could be the oldest in the Americas," he said.

Lambayeque is 472 miles from Lima, Peru's capital.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071111/sc_nm/peru_archaeology_dc

poverty of the common people was hard to take.

I wonder what it means.

or whatever
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Cthulhu+ftaghn+&btnG=Google+Search

'Tis just a joke on Teaser's part. Fear not. A giant tentacle-faced monster is *not* going to eat us all.



Or is it?

your heresy will not go unremembered

I left that post open-ended. Don't forget that.

:)

into a har-dee-har attempt at cartoony one-upsmanship. Seriously.

:)

:P

Also, I've got to go to the li-berry and read a book I don't want to read. So it's sort of a procrastination thing. But, I'm gonna go.... now.

Users, dealers and whores too.

And when that's done the potheads come next

Please! Don't disturb the Ancient Ones!

I just love this stuff

Remarkable what some will do for their community.

...and goes on a State Visit to Peru, will they take him to visit, or would that offend his religious sensibilities, since he apparently believes everyone here came over from Israel 2,000 years ago?

Hadn't seen this...Thanks for posting it! :thumbsup:

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Clicking around on this topic yields some interesting images.