🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Áspero Archaeological Site (Fishing Town of Caral)
Late Archaic 3000–2500 BCE · Norte Chico (Caral maritime)
Coastal port six pyramids, fish-for-cotton, 3000–2500 BCE.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Pampa Grande — Huaca Fortaleza Chimú Border Pyramid
Moche Late (600–750 CE Transitional Moche V state, crucial 2012 Pampa Grande polity) · Late Moche → Wari overlap 750 collapse
Pampa Grande excavated by Shimada— 600–750 Moche V large city border.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Chaviña Pampa East Extension Geoglyphs (Pampa Chaviña Este, Lucanas)
Early Intermediate to Middle Horizon (Siguas–Nazca–Wari) · Lucanas puna Siguas–Nazca–Wari (Puquio transect)
38 high-puna figures on Chaviña East 3980 m: zoomorphs plus 3.2 km solstice avenues radiating from apacheta to Misti sightline.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Sechín — Cerro Sechín Victory Mural Excarnated Heads Plaza
Preceramic to Sechin (Cerro Sechín 1600 BCE temple with 300 warrior stelae; Sechin Bajo 3500 BCE Old Temple plaza circular 1650 BCE square) · Sechin-Casma Early Ceramic (Sechin 1600) over Sechin Bajo Preceramic 3500 BCE square
Sechin excavated by Tello 1937 and Fuchs 2002 Sechin Bajo 3500 plaza.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Galindo — Late Moche Coastal Enclave Post-Moche Transition
Late Moche / Transitional (600–800 CE) to Wari influence · Late Moche → Wari (transitional Moche V to coastal Wari)
Moche transition Galindo excavated by Bawden 1980s, Wari presence after Moche southern collapse.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hypothetical site
Paititi — Pantiacolla–Pusharo Plateau (Madre de Dios Antisuyu)
Hypothetical Late Horizon projection onto pre-Inca petroglyph horizon Pre-Columbian to Early Colonial hypothesis · Inca Vilcabamba hypothesis projected onto pre-Inca rock art (unvalidated) / Machiguenga
Most-photographed Paititi candidate — sandstone mesa terraces above Pusharo petroglyphs on Pantiacolla range, 670 m, no verified masonry.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hypothetical site
Paititi — Paratoari Pyramids at Manú Alto Plateau (Paratoari Norte) — v2
Hypothetical Late Horizon (?) natural Meso steps + pre-Columbian field field 900 CE · Hypothetical Inca pyramid city (unvalidated) / pre-Columbian field field culture
Paratoari pyramidal mesas 150 m promoted as Paititi north — mesas natural mesas with 2 km field levee 0.5 m, Inka sherds at base but no summit stone.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Vilcabamba — Espíritu Pampa (Last Capital of the Inca)
Wari → Inca → Neo-Inca 1200–1572 CE · Neo-Inca (Manco Inca)
Last Neo-Inca capital 1536–1572, 12 ha jungle city.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Chaviña Pampa Colorada Northwest Geoglyphs (Pampa Colorada NW Extension)
Early Intermediate–Middle Horizon transition (500–750 CE) · Huarpa–Wari
Northwest lobe of Pampa Colorada (3,300 m) extending toward Cora Cora trail. Fourteen figures: 30-m ‘scepter’ (shaft + disc), 16-m condor silhouette, and 80-m bifurcating avenue.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Tucume — Templo de la Piedra Sagrada and 26 Pyramid Ridge
Sicán (Lambayeque 1100) to Chimú (1350) to Inca 1470 layer cake with 26 pyramids (1100–1532 CE) 220 ha · Sicán → Chimú → Inca successive on Cerro La Raya ridge temple of stone 12 m high sacred
Tucume excavated by Thor Heyerdahl 1988 Kon-Tiki, 220 ha 26 pyramids Heyerdahl.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Chaviña Pampa West Quebrada Jaccra Geoglyphs (Quebrada Jaccra Canyon Head)
Early Intermediate (Nazca 5–7, 200 BCE–600 CE) · Lucanas Nazca–Huarpa canyon groups
24 western gorge-head figures at Jaccra 3650 m: arms-aloft giants + spiral and 110 m gorge-arrow to springs.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hypothetical site
Gran Paititi — Pusharo Lagoon Mesa Plateau North (Madre de Dios Plateau North)
Hypothetical Inka Late Horizon to Refuge · Hypothetical Inka mega-city
Hypothetical northern mesa plateau of Gran Paititi — 3 km natural sandstone outliers as pyramids.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Chaviña Pampa Quebrada Loma Southwest Geoglyphs (Loma Ravine Rim)
Early Intermediate (300 BCE–500 CE) · Huarpa–Topará
Ravine rim (3,350 m) above Quebrada Loma with 10-m drop; figures perched on rim crest with foresight over Nasca–Ayacucho corridor.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hypothetical site
Gran Paititi — Manú Lidar Block Pusharo East Ridge (Madre de Dios)
Hypothetical Late Horizon (?) or Late Intermediate ambiguous Pre-Columbian hypothesis · Hypothetical pre-Inca / Inca refuge re-projection (unvalidated)
Paititi second ridge east of Pusharo — 2 km rectilinear terrace 0.8 m and three 12 m mounds under canopy, forest check 1400 CE charcoal but no masonry.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Bimini–Andes Atlantis Tunnel Pseudo – Trans-Atlantic Andean Basalt Highway
Pseudoarchaeology composite (1939 Cayce Bimini hall → 1975 von Däniken Chariots → 2021 Bimini-Andes tunnel YouTube) · Cayce 1939 Reading 5748-6 Bimini hall; von Däniken 1975 Chariots Andean tunnels; Jimenez del Oso 1980 Sacsayhuamán Chinkana Atlantis
Pseudo trans-Atlantic tunnel linking Bimini beachrock 6000 km to Andes adits – Cayce Hall of Records highway.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Batán Grande — Sicán Metallurgy City Pompeii of Adobes Poma Forest
Sicán Middle (900–1050 CE Sicán metallurgy peak) + Inca later · Sicán (Lambayeque) bronze arsenic gold tumi metallurgy with Chimú later
Batan Grande Shimada 1978–, 900 Sicán capital metallurgy frenzy.
🇵🇪 Peru · Mound
Cao Temple Extension — Huaca Prieta Preceramic Mound El Brujo Plain
Preceramic (3500–1800 BCE) with early cotton 3300 BCE and indigo 1500 BCE · Preceramic Cupisnique antecedent with early cotton textile industry
Huaca Prieta Bird 1947, Dillehay 2003 oldest cotton 3300 indigo.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hypothetical site
Marcahuasi — Second Plateau Amphitheatre and Fortune Altar (Lima Andes)
Quaternary geology Holocene wind tafoni onto Miocene andesite geology, no cultural horizon Holocene natural / fringe claim Pre-Columbian hypothetical · Natural andesite tafoni and wind hoodoos / fringe attribution to Masma culture (Ruzo unvalidated)
Marcahuasi second plateau amphitheatre 3950 m — 80 m hoodoo ring and 15 m 'Fortune Altar' mesa, wind-faceted andesite claimed as Lemurian carvings, geology tafoni.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hypothetical site
Paititi — Pinco Pichu Ridge Vilcabamba Second Spur (Pantiacolla East II)
Holocene landslide bench geology + modern Paititi projection onto Vilcabamba interior spur Late Horizon hypothesis projection onto natural bench geology · Natural landslide bench with colluvial stone-fronted pircas misread as Paititi interior citadel (no in situ culture)/ Late Horizon sherds downslope allochthonous Choquequirao wash
Interior Andes Paititi spur Pinco Pichu 2100 m — 30–50 m terrace lines and 10×8 m platforms under canopy, landslide benches with colluvial pircas, sherds allochthonous.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Farfan — Chimú Administrative Palace Northern Frontier Jequetepeque
Chimú (1200–1470) before Inca 1470 remodel Inca-Chimú style palace hybrid · Chimú → Inca hybrid 1470 Inca administrative refacing
Farfan Mackey & Klymyshyn 1970s Chimu north palaces with Inca hybrid.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Pañamarca — Moche Occupation Cupisnique Mound Northern Lima? no Ancash
Moche (550–800 CE) wall murals southernmost Moche 550–710 HalPRI mural layer 4.2 m · Moche southern frontier (Nepeña) with Wari-influenced mural final 710
Pañamarca Schaedel 1950s and recent Trever, Moche southern mural.
🇵🇪 Peru · Buried city
Vilcabamba — Espíritu Pampa Vitcos Valley Submerged Sector (Concepción)
Late Horizon Neo-Inca (1539 – 1572 CE) · Neo-Inca State (Manco, Sayri, Titu Cusi, Tupac Amaru)
Last Inca capital valley floor — Espíritu Pampa Vilcabamba lowland terraces and causeway 0.5–1 m under floodplain jungle below Vitcos ridge.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Garagay Archaeological Complex — Lima Temple with Polychrome Reliefs
Initial–Early Horizon 1400–500 BCE · Central coast Chavínoid
U-shaped temple 23 m polychrome reliefs 1400–500 BCE.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hypothetical site
Gran Paititi — Pusharo Lagoon Lidar Block West at Madre de Dios Ouest (Manú Ouest)
Hypothetical Late Horizon (?) palm swamp levee 900 CE or natural · Hypothetical Inca lagoon city (unvalidated) / pre-Columbian field (?)
Paititi lagoon swamp third variant 1.2 km levee 0.9 m at Pusharo lagoon edge with 15 m mound-islands — 1600 CE charcoal but no stone, palm levee geofact.