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Notes about the trip to Lima (Peru)

My trip to Peru would not be complete expedition. It was a couple of years ago, when the project FernFlower I didn't know. I was in the capital of this wonderful country with only a business visit, and footage that appears in this article is the result of trying to understand a little bit very far from us culture in their free time. However, it seems to me that some of the information may be useful here, because in Peru are known to everyone who is interested in paranormal phenomena, places like Machu Picchu, the Nazca desert, lake Titicaca. If now planned expedition to Peru, then the program would be much wider and be sure to cover the mentioned attractions.

A bit of geography. Peru is in Western South America. Most of the country (the one to the East of the Andes) is covered by jungle. To the West of the Andes located a narrow strip of land, washed by the Pacific ocean. Here is the capital of Peru – Lima.

Peru has a very ancient and interesting history. Historians believe that the first humans appeared in Peru about the XV century BC, centuries before Christ the land of Peru was inhabited by peoples who have created the powerful civilizations that built monuments that have survived to the present day. It is believed that the first people in Peru were nomadic hunter-gatherers who lived in caves. The most developed culture on the territory of Peru was the Chavin culture in the district of Callejón de Huaylas, have flourished in 800-300 BC, Nazca and Paracas in the southern part of the Peruvian coast (C. 200-500 C. E.); Mochica, and Chimu in the North (CA. 300-1400 ad), the Tiwanaku on the shores of lake Titicaca (flourished from the 11th century) In the 12th century ad the tribe of the Incas settled in the Cuzco. In the 15th century the Incas owned lands from modern-day southern Colombia to Central Chile and created an Empire Tawantinsuyu, which translates as "four interconnected sides of the world". Interestingly, four roads divided the Empire into four parts. Then there was the conquest by the Spaniards, the war for independence and the long road to democratic civilian rule. But the Inca Peruvians believe their ancestors, they are associated with early Peruvian history.

The Incas left a lot of monuments of culture. The most famous are their capital city of Cuzco and the lost city of Machu Picchu. But there are a lot of temples and graves buried under mountains of earth and sand.

The capital of Peru, Lima, stretched along the Pacific coast for tens of kilometers. Most of the land on which stands the town, contains the remains of the civilization of the ancient Incas. Previously it was not paying attention and built houses directly on the ancient graves. So if there's any truth in the legends about ghosts in houses, which are built on ancient Indian burial ground, this however does not apply to Peruvian homes, most of which are it and built. However, lately (starting around the 90s of the last century) the most significant find during the construction of the graves transferred to the Fund of the Institute of national culture of Peru, who is engaged in their study. Some monuments remain closed to the public, and some are doing open air museums that attract tourists. In one such Museum, built on the site of the ancient temple complex of ancient donkovski civilization, I had a chance to visit.
 

The name of the Museum

From the entrance overlooks the main attraction of the Museum is the ancient temple complex of the Incas.
 

 
The temple complex

In fact, this complex is a huge burial mound, built of square flat bricks. Served this structure is primarily for ritual purposes, it was a place of sacrifice (though it seems to be not a human) to the gods, here were buried the members of the nobility.

Bricks for building were made here from the clay and water. Although the climate in Lima is very humid, doesn't rain. This circumstance helped to keep the building, which is over three thousand years and which is constructed of is not very durable in other conditions of the material in good condition.
 

The on-site Museum contains rare and very expensive in other countries, Peruvian hairless dog

However, most of the buildings were damaged by the time

 

This mound excavated by the archaeologists

Restoration of the complex still continues. Scientists have recreated the manufacturing process of the bricks and slowly regenerate ravaged areas of the structure.
 

And here are the areas of the buildings after restoration

International scientific standards forbid to do a new clutch is absolutely identical to the old, so that it can always be distinguished.
 

Old and new brickwork

The Museum is quite large, however, and not cover the entire temple complex, which, apparently, was huge.
 

The view from the top of the structure

Someone of the tourists asked the tour guide about ghosts, which should be such a place. He only laughed and said that by this logic, all of Lima should be swarming with ghosts, because this here barrow for example has decided to leave the Institute, and on the adjacent constructed high-rise buildings.

I was also able to visit the Historical Museum of Peru. It contains a huge number of artifacts left by the many cultures that inhabited this land.

A large number of monuments with inscriptions, deciphering some of which scientists are fighting still.
 

Ancient stone carving

The ancient Incas were highly developed medicine – is sufficient to carry out a complex operation of craniotomy. Formed in the result of the hole closed up gold plates. However, some "scientists" claim that the Incas taught the aliens from outer space, but the evidence for this in the Museum I saw.
 

Skull with traces of trepanation

The Nazca lines deserve its own stand.
 

The geoglyphs of Nazca (the photo came out blurry due to bad lighting in this part of the Museum)

At the stand dedicated to the culture of the tribes of the Amazon, I saw these dried heads. I used to watch American trash-film on the same topic, but thought it was absolute fiction of a sick imagination of Hollywood screenwriters. It turns out that the sorcerers of the tribes living in the Amazon jungle, really knew the secret of shrinking heads to the size of a tennis ball. However, I did not understand why they did it. Now this technology is lost.
 

Dried heads

In General, that's all I managed to see in Peru related to the themes of the project. But this is not all that there is. Perhaps in the future it will be possible to gather a complete expedition of these amazing places – they hide many mysteries.

Translated by «Yandex.Translator»


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