Caral
How did a society with no pottery, no metal tools, no wheel, no draft animals, and no writing raise six stone-faced pyramids and sunken plazas on a desert terrace 5,000 years ago — building one of the world's first cities at the same moment as the pyramids of Egypt, and doing it, apparently, without an army?
Late Archaic Period, monumental phase c. 2600 BCE (Norte Chico / Caral civilization) · Sacred City of Caral-Supe, Supe Valley, Lima Region, PeruAdded July 2026