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🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period temple culture
Raimondi Stela — North Face (Chavín de Huántar, Ancash) in Ancash, Chavín, Peru is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) temple complex attributed to…
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Late Horizon (Inca) · Inca (Cusco imperial)
Inca road sanctuary (1400–1532 CE) at Limatambo pass on Cusco–Andahuaylas–Apurímac corridor at 2550 m, with Tarawasi polished polygonal gateway-mur retaining 4-m terrace, ushnu pla...
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Classical (regional) · Classical
Lower Lima Ridge I — Lima (56-18) at Lima, Peru is a Classical (regional) pyramid of the Classical tradition, built c. 2500 BCE for ridge and associated settlement.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Preceramic–Initial Period 3000–2500 BCE · Marañón Amazon-Andes (Jaén pre-Carral)
5300-year spiral temple in Amazonian Jaén with world's oldest cacao 5300 BP and Maltese cross hearth.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Archaic (Norte Chico) · Norte Chico (Caral-Supe sphere)
Late Archaic platform (2600–2000 BCE) in Huaral piedmont on south cone of Caral sphere, with 8-m truncated shicra-fill pyramid, central atrium, sunken circular court and lateral pl...
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Early Intermediate (200 BCE–600 CE) · Huarpa
Central meseta (3,280 m) bisecting Chaviña Pampa between previously documented north ridge and south sector.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Early Intermediate Lima to Middle Horizon Wari 1–800 CE · Lima culture (later Wari influence)
167-ha tapia pyramid city, 1st–8th century CE Lima culture metropolis.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) · Old Kingdom / Middle Kingdom
Cahuachi — Pyramid Ancillary Plaza (Nasca) in Ica, Nasca, Cahuachi, Peru is a Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) pyramid attributed to Old Kingdom / Mid…
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Chan Chan — Nik An Compound North Audience Hall in La Libertad, Trujillo, Chan Chan, Peru is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attri…
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Late Horizon Inca Resistance 1536–1572 · Inca (Neo-Inca State)
Inca Vilcabamba resistance capital: Rosaspata palace, Yurak Rumi 2.5 m white shrine and Ñusta Hispana.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Early Horizon–Early Intermediate Casma Sechín 250–200 BCE · Casma/Sechín (Punkurí tradition)
Second Thirteen Towers line 400 m east of famous solar observatory, with observing building and bastions.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Preceramic Kotosh-Mito tradition (3000–1700 BCE; Temple of Crossed Hands 2300 BCE; White Temple 1800 BCE) · Kotosh-Mito tradition (Iso's) Kotosh religious Kotosh Religious Tradition 3000 BCE predecessor to Chavín
Kotosh Tokyo 1960 exposed-crossed hands 2300 BCE earliest Andes.
🇵🇪 Peru · Tell
Late Intermediate to Late Horizon (c.1000-1532 CE) · Andean Late Intermediate-Late Horizon (Wari–Inca)
Yachaymarca (Yachay Marca) — buried late tell/village at Ancash Region.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Lima 200–600 → Wari → Ichma 1100–1470 → Inca 1470–1533 (pyramids Ichma period) · Lima → Wari → Ichma → Inca
Pan-Andean oracle sanctuary 200–1533 with 17 ramp pyramids (Huaca del Sol Inca? Not, Pachacamac pyramids): large stepped terraces with central ramp (Ichma style 1100–1470), Inca Temple of the Sun 30…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Lima to Wari (400–700 CE Lima culture coastal pyramid 100 m × 53 m × 22 m with 600,000 reused small adobitos 'library' of bricks) · Lima culture (Pucllana 400–830) then Wari intrusive 700
Pucllana excavated by Flores 1980–, 600k adobitos library pyramid.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Late Intermediate Wanka (Xauxa) 1000–1460 CE · Wanka (Xauxa)
1,000-house Wanka honeycomb hilltop citadel, 1000–1460 CE.
🇵🇪 Peru · Tomb
Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) · Old–New Kingdom Egyptian; Moche
Sipán — Royal Tomb Ancillary Chamber West (Lambayeque) in Lambayeque, Sipán, Huaca Rajada, Peru is a Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) tomb attributed …
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Initial Period (2000–1500 BCE) Collud-Zarcillo with charcoal 1600 BCE, Olmec-style mural earliest Americas · North Coast Initial Period (Cupisnique antecedent with Chavín precursor mural 1500 BCE)
Ventarrón excavated by Alva 2007–, 2000 BCE mural oldest Americas.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hydraulic works
Paracas to Early Nazca ~300 BCE–600 CE · Nazca (and earlier Paracas)
Nazca spiral puquio filtration galleries - 600 m underground still watering desert after 1,400 years.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Middle Sicán to Chimú 700–1375 CE · Sicán (Lambayeque) then Chimú
Golden Priestess tomb within twin truncated pyramids, 700–1375 CE.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Early Late Horizon 1420–1438 CE (pre-Pachacuti) · Inca (pre-imperial)
Wiraqocha's 3600 m royal estate above Sacred Valley with 40 m Kallanka, terraces and reservoir 23 m.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Late Horizon Inca Imperial 1440–1536 CE · Inca
Qhapaq Ñan tambo with 28-niche polygonal usnu platform of perfectly fitted octagonal andesite.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Ancient City of Pediment Chapel in Ancash, Peru is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Classical culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Necropolis
Chalcolithic to Early Bronze (4500–2000 BCE) · Chalcolithic
Paracas — Necropolis South Bundle Cluster (Ica) in Ica, Paracas Peninsula, Peru is a Chalcolithic to Early Bronze (4500–2000 BCE) necropolis attributed to …
