Caral sits in the Supe Valley, a region of Peru's high desert nestled between the rainforest, mountains and the Pacific coast. The valley is brimming with ancient monumental architecture.

Caral sits in the Supe Valley, a region of Peru’s high desert nestled between the rainforest, mountains and the Pacific coast. The valley is brimming with ancient monumental architecture. And in the ...

Caral, in comparison, receives a mere fraction of that. According to data from the Peruvian government, of the roughly 44,000 visitors to Caral last year, only 1,700 of them were foreigners.

Caral, the first ancient city of the Americas, is located in the Barranca region of Peru and began being developed about 5,000 years ago. Caral began as a small settlement and grew into a massive city ...

Researchers believe Peñico served as a trading hub linking ancient Pacific coast communities with those living in the Andes ...

Caral was also well situated for more extensive trade, with the neighboring valleys and beyond. The city exported its own products and those of Aspero to distant communities in exchange for exotic ...

F ive thousand years ago, an ancient civilization known as the Caral-Supe flourished in what is now a region of north-central coastal Peru. The Caral were remarkable for sustaining a complex urban ...

Caral was nearly five thousand years old, as old as the pyramids of Egypt, older than anyone had thought possible. JONATHAN HAAS: I was virtually in hysterics for three days afterwards.

Caral faced another situation: first, the city was built at the «empty area». Second, this region of Peru was developing in isolation from all other America, the peoples of which at that period were ...