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Archaeological sites in Peru are numerous and diverse, representing different aspects including temples and fortresses of the various cultures of ancient Peru, such as the Moche and Nazca. The sites vary in importance from small local sites to UNESCO World Heritage sites of global importance. [ 1 ]
The National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of Peru (Spanish: Museo Nacional de Arqueología Antropología e Historia del Perú, MNAAHP) is the largest and oldest museum in Peru, housed at the Palacio de la Magdalena, located in the main square of Pueblo Libre, a district of Lima, Peru. The museum houses more than 100,000 ...
Cardich, Augusto: Origen del hombre y de la cultura andinos. Tomo I de la Historia del Perú, pp. 108–109. Lima, Editorial Juan Mejía Baca, 1982. Cuarta edición. ISBN 84-499-1606-2; Kaulicke, Peter: "El Perú Antiguo I (9000 a.C.-200d.C.) Los periodos arcaico y formativo". Tomo primero de la Historia del Perú.
[2] [3] It was designed in Neo-Inca style by architect Ricardo de Jaxa Malachowski. [4] The museum's predecessor, the Institute of Peruvian Art, was created in 1931 by Decree Law No. 7084 [5] as an institute annexed to the Department of Anthropology of the National Museum, to promote the study of pre-Hispanic art and popular arts. [6]
The history of Peru spans 15 millennia, [1] extending back through several stages of cultural development along the country's desert coastline and in the Andes mountains. Peru's coast was home to the Norte Chico civilization, the oldest civilization in the Americas and one of the six cradles of civilization in the world.
Entrance of the Ancon Site Museum. Ancon is an archaeological site in the north of the Bay of Ancon, in the Ancón District, on the central coast of Peru.It is one of the most important centers of the Peruvian archeology and features a vast necropolis of the pre-Hispanic era, with countless funerary sites.
It is now an archeological site in the department of La Libertad five kilometers (3.1 mi) west of Trujillo, Peru. [ 2 ] Chan Chan is located in the mouth of the Moche Valley [ 3 ] and was the capital of the historical empire of the Chimor from 900 to 1470, [ 4 ] when they were defeated and incorporated into the Inca Empire . [ 5 ]
This is a chart of cultural periods of Peru and the Andean Region developed by John Rowe and Edward Lanning and used by some archaeologists studying the area. An alternative dating system was developed by Luis Lumbreras and provides different dates for some archaeological finds.