{"id":139891,"date":"2025-07-09T09:36:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T04:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/?p=139891"},"modified":"2025-07-09T09:36:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T04:36:38","slug":"archaeologists-find-3500-year-old-lost-city-in-peru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/?p=139891","title":{"rendered":"Archaeologists find 3,500-year-old lost city in Peru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Archaeologists have discovered a city in Peru thought to be about 3,500 years old.<br \/>\nThe city, called Pe\u00f1ico, is likely to have served as a trading post linking early Pacific coast communities with those living in the Andes mountains and Amazon basin.<br \/>\nLocated around 200 miles north of Lima in the country\u2019s Barranca province, the urban centre sits on a hillside around 1,970ft above sea level and is believed to have been founded between 1,800 and 1,500BC \u2013 around the same time as early civilisations flourished in the Middle East and Asia.<br \/>\nDrone footage of the site taken by researchers shows a circular structure on a hillside terrace at the city\u2019s centre, surrounded by the remains of stone and mud buildings.<br \/>\nThe site bears a striking resemblance to the ancient city of Caral, the oldest civilisation in the Americas, 17 miles to the west.<br \/>\nScientists believe the city may have been formed after Caral collapsed as a result of climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archaeologists have discovered a city in Peru thought to be about 3,500 years old. The city, called Pe\u00f1ico, is likely to have served as a trading post linking early Pacific coast communities with those living in the Andes mountains and Amazon basin. Located around 200 miles north of Lima in the country\u2019s Barranca province, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10916],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139892,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139891\/revisions\/139892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/139802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}