Caral is a pre-Hispanic city considered a World Heritage site for housing the oldest civilization in America, approximately 5,000 years old. The city influenced later Andean cultures with its ...

A team of archaeologists started excavating a pyramid at the Era de Pando Archaeological Site as part of ongoing research into the Caral-Supe civilization, a 5,000-year-old society considered the ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have unearthed a vast ancient pyramid that was hidden for millennia, right next to a revered sacred city. They have hailed the find as an opportunity to shed new light on the earlies… ...

Caral was built around 5,000 years ago, give or take a few centuries, according to groundbreaking research published in Science back in 2001.That origin date places it before the Egyptian pyramids ...

"The people of Caral were beginning to form social classes, and each stratum of society might have belonged to a different pyramid," says Rocio Aramburu, who was directing excavations last week.

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, Peru — In a barren landscape that now looks like the moon, a mysterious culture built pyramids here nearly 5,000 years ago. Until recently, few archeologists would have believed that. The ...