The difficulty with Archeology is that you have to wait for someone
to get lucky and you will be in direct competition with every tomb
robber imaginable. It appears that we just got lucky in Peru.
Better we have a high status tomb with both gold and silver artifacts
as well as the all important bronze axes that tie this to the
Atlantean world or its echo.
Recall that we understand that these axes were the effective currency
of the Atlantean world. Thus this provides us a tentative linkage in
artifacts for the Wari to the apparently earlier Atlantaic World.
I continue to be cautious in accepting the ages of South American
civilizations. They smack of a severe bias to late sites and I am
not sure that this should be so without working through an awful lot
of raw data.
We really know little about how these cultures moved forward in time.
As well I am also conscious of the real antiquity of Mesopotamian
civilizations that lasted intact for thousands of years. This only
ended with the advent of successful cavalry.
We have been able to push back the Olmecs to 1000 BC showing at least
1500 years of continuity there. I expect as much in So. Am. for the
same reason and the obvious Atlantean genesis all over the place
there.
Amazingly Untouched
Royal Tomb Found in Peru
By by Megan
Gannon,
A rare, undisturbed
royal tomb has been unearthed in Peru, revealing the graves of three
Wari queens buried alongside gold and silver riches and possible
human sacrifices.
Though the surrounding
site has been looted many times, this mausoleum has managed to
evade grave robbers for hundreds of years, archaeologists
say.
Long before the Inca
built Machu Picchu, the Wari empire flourished between A.D. 700
and 1000 throughout much of present-day Peru. At a time when Paris
had just 25,000 residents, the Wari capital Huari was home to 40,000
people at its height, according to National Geographic, which
reported the find. [In Photos: Amazing Ruins of the Ancient World]
Despite their reach,
the Wari have remained somewhat mysterious, and it is rare for
archaeologists to find burials that have not been ravaged by grave
robbers. In hauling away treasures, looters destroy archaeological
context and information, leaving researchers grasping for answers
about how ancient people lived.
But a team led by
Polish and Peruvian archaeologists discovered an underground
mausoleum that's being billed as the first unlootedWari imperial
tomb, sealed for centuries under 30 tons (27 metric tons) of loose
stone fill.
The 1,200-year-old
chamber was found in El Castillo de Huarmey, north of Lima. Milosz
Giersz, an archaeologist at the University of Warsaw in Poland, told
National Geographic that he first saw a faint outline of the
mausoleum in aerial photographs of the site.
In digging through to
the "temple of the dead," the team reportedly discovered
rows of human bodies buried in a seated position (some of them
suspected to be human sacrifices). They also found three Wari queens
in small side chambers among valuable grave goods, such as gold tools
for weaving, brilliantly painted ceramic vessels and a drinking cup
carved from alabaster.
The queens may not
have been laid to rest for good after they died.National
Geographic also reported that there were traces of insect pupae
found in the queens' bodies, suggesting that their mummies may have
been periodically put out on display, left exposed to the open air,
to be venerated by the living Wari people.
Over months of
digging, the team unearthed more than a thousand artifacts from the
site, including semi-precious stone beads, carved wooden
artifacts, bronze axes and jewelry made from gold and silver
Giersz told National Geographic that he expects the site will keep
archaeologists busy for years to come.
Peru's Minister of
Culture and other officials are set to officially announce the
discovery today (June 27) in a press conference at the site.
1 comment:
I still feel it is a shame the the Catholic Religion and them so-called priests and their armmies came to South America and destroyed much of the History of these countries just to steal their Gold.
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