The OLDEST Civilisation in the Americas: The Pyramid City of Caral, Peru | Ancient Architects
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
- Not everybody knows that there is a magnificent lost pyramid city in the heart of Peru, a city that dates back to the same time at the Giza pyramids of Egypt. Yes, the magnificent ancient city of Caral dates back to 2,627 BC and is known as the Mother City of South America by some archaeologists.
For over a century archaeologists were searching for such a mother city and this large settlement, located 120 miles north of Lima, is one of the most ancient of the Americas, home of the Norte Chico civilisation. It was declared a UNESCO world heritage site back in 2009.
It was occupied between the 26th and 20th centuries BC and was described by excavators as the oldest urban centre in the Americas, but since its discovery in 1948, other ancient sites such as Bandurria in Peru have challenged this title.
Astonishingly, it was found in pristine condition and nothing had been built over it since the city was deserted. It would have been home to more than 3,000 people, with an elaborate complex of temples, an amphitheatre and ordinary houses covering 370 acres of land. There are plazas and residential buildings, and of course pyramids.
Watch this new Ancient Architects video to find out more about this truly fascinating lost civilisation, to see the incredible architecture, archaeological finds and the giant geoglyph associated with Caral.
All images are taken from Google Images for educational purposes only.
#ancientarchitects #caral #ancientperu
I had released this video a while ago but I was never happy with the editing, so I’ve re-worked it. I also wanted to give mention to Sechin Bejo, Peru, as that’s a subject of a forthcoming video so I added that in. Thanks for watching! 👍
Could you do an episode on the gods of the native americans? I've got a mississippian site around my families land that's a shrine to their underworld God, I made a video on my channel showing the paintings and caves if you wanna check it out but it's hard to find info on this stuff as I'm sure you already know
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That's awesome 👍
Thanks for the content fam! Really really REALLY appreciate you 🙏✊✊🔥🔥🔥
@@missourimongoose8858 can I come see!? 🙏🙏😅 that’s awesome!
@@OldWorldNY feel free to watch the video but I can't bring folks back there unless the folks around here agree to because unfortunately if given half a chance people will destroy it, I am goin to make another video showing around the whole site on top of the bluff and stuff
Matt, Ancient Architects is my favorite channel by a wide margin. It’s clearly evident that your pursuit for content is most genuine. I admit that you save me hours scouring the inter-web for new discoveries. Thank you so much for your passion and dedication. Cheers
Thank you so much for such a positive comment 👍
Ditto!
Amen to that!
Agreed! I used to not like Matt, but in the past 2-3yrs, he's really upped the game and put a lot of woo to the side, glad to be here for it!
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Thank you. When I get overwhelmed by current world events, I watch your videos to get centered and to clam down.
There's so much we do not know.
It's always good to see quality programs about the ancient civilizations of the Western Hemisphere. People know about Machu Picchu but there was so much more. Caral is an amazing place.
Caral is truly amazing. The age of it as well! Incredible
World of Antiquity with Dr. Miano is very good too. He does some polite, but cutting, debunks of pseudo-history videos.
Thanks so much for the recent videos, you certainly have been busy. I've especially enjoyed the diversity of sites, areas and continents. There is so much ancient history out there to be appreciated. Many thanks Matt for all you do!
Fascinating site! These videos on lesser known ancient locations have all been a treat. Thank You Matt!
Thanks for being here again Barry! Appreciated
I was doing some googling last night looking up the ages of pyramids and was surprised to see this place was ranked 2nd and if my search was reliable at all it was only a small gap by like 40 yrs. Its amazing you released this video the very next day lol. Egypt may get dethroned as the premier pyramid builders!!!!! It is truly fascinating and thank you for the great video.
The Pyramids in America's are way more impressive than Giza. I'm obsessed with this stuff and in my opinion, the powers at be are hiding a lot of the history of the Americas.
I am a tour guide and I usually take tourists to visit Caral. Great place for ARCHAEOLOGY and ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS lovers. Greetings from Lima
One of the highlights of my 2007 South American trip. A little tricky getting there but way worth it.
It really feels like western South America should be included with Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley and China as first independent societies to form cities and master agriculture.
I agree, shame people don’t even give it the attention it deserves
I think it doesn't fill up what civilisation is, like a huge population, trade
All these civilizations are in Perú.
To master agriculture? Independently, coincidentally? Or maybe likelier taught by some other civilization?
@@briangross Doubtful as animals, fruits and vegetables were only spread around the world in the modern age. It's quite impossible to think that civilizations would visit and teach each other without trading.
I wonder how the weather was like in this region when the site was active! Also, it´s amazing how "modern" these populations were! We´re so arrogant! Oh, and thank you for the awesome content!
I would love to see people living in a copy of this town. If rebuild in weter climat.
good question
Fascinating! I was totally unaware of this site and now my mind is racing a thousand miles an hour to consider the possibilities. Thank you for your wonderful work
Always happy to see another Ancient Architects video
What a great video! You keep coming up with the most interesting ancient history on You Tube. The British Museum had a video not long ago on the Khipu. It’s so fascinating. Thank you and keep up the great work educating us!
That geoglyph outside of Caral (at 4:37 in the video) looks just like the carvings on the wall in the city outside of Lima (at 6:11 in the video) ...the long hair and open mouth are spot on. There is even a flat spot for the head dress...
I am Peruvian. I loved your video as I love all things that have to do with my country. ;)
Humans are endlessly fascinating. Thank you for another great video.
How could I have never heard of this site!? Thanks very much for covering it!
As an Architect myself I really enjoy your research and presentation of sites essentially unknown to the outside world.
Great video, thanks! I visited Caral in 2011 and again in 2012. Amazing complex and quite large. Was able to have my own personal tour guided by one of the local guides, his English was better than my Spanish! But we managed. Since the site is a World Heritage Site, most relics must be viewed from the paths, not walking about as in Machu Picchu or other Huacas. It can be done in a one-day trip from Lima in a car (don’t need an off-roader), don’t remember the entrance fee, but probably on the web. Worth a visit if you can!
I must say that this might be the best made episode so far, well done. :)
Caral is certainly an extremely important but not that well known site. I think I watched everything on UA-cam on the subject a year ago and it was surprisingly little for such an amazing site. Honestly, you could have easily added another 10 minutes for a longer episode here because how interesting the site is. I feel that it together with El Mirador is the most important city in South America.
This is incredible! I absolutely have to see this for myself 🙏✊
i am glad they do not claim caral was the first civilization but rather the oldest so far found
Good video. I have been to Caral, there is so much that hasnt been unearthed yet, the sight is less than 30% explored. And I mean way less than 30 cuz I cant exactly remember but i think it was like 3% excavated but I dont want to say the wrong numbers... also they have found really ancient cities IN the Amazon, overrun by the rain forest, but they say the Amazon was home to tens of millions of city dwelling peoples
Still one of the most credible channels on YT.
Peru is the most amazing treasure trove of ancient history..I m going in a few mos and it ll be my life s greatest adventure ..
Mexico and Peru home to the greatest civilizations in the Western Hemisphere
I must say that your presentation and information is impeccable and enlightening thankyou for your efforts and research.
Incredible. Thank you for sharing those magnificent finds. Seeing pyramids all over the world in civilization who seem to have no connection and just like a certain step of civilization development is breath taking.
I love Caral. Amazing site
That's because they were all influenced by the same elite/top/god's. The same advancer entities that rules our governments to this day. The absolute top of the government worship them and carry out their agendas through politics.
Your channel is the best that covers these subjects which to me is highly compelling.
Awesome stuff, Matt! I mean that literally. Great work, dude! Thanks!
your stuff is always interesting ....Thanks !!...
Exceptional video Matt.
Perú 🇵🇪 the best with civilization in the Americas
Happy St. Patrick’s Day ☘️ Matt and all our community. Cheers 🍻
Thank you for this upload and the info provided. We appreciate your channels evolution.
Regardless that institutions don't agree-
We are learning through indigenous groups stories that have been passed down for ages. These stories claim a connection and exchange of information between Anawak and Tahuantinsuyu, and whats known today as Africa and Asia.
Hence 4 known directions in indigenous philosophy.
It’s said that an event long ago caused great destruction and flooding, and that they were forced into the mountains via caves. Faced with new groups a proto language emerged, they created new cultures and societal systems, the elders taught the young what plants to look for and what animals and insects to gather. Today, mostly in Mexico down to Peru, we see images of mountains with caves and the caves openings are represented by either snake mouths or alligator mouths. Alligators represent/ed, besides an ancient thing, primordial energy, first light, the first day of the calendar count, a beginning point, etc.
Snakes represent physical matter, earth, wisdom, vibrating energy, etc.
When they emerged they noticed vegetation previously unknown and that new rivers and bodies of water had formed.
Corn was first cultivated around 9-10k years ago.
There are paintings depicting corn dated 7,500 years old, as well as a symbol for consciousness we wont mention, and an alligator symbol used in the calendar count.
You will not find the exact same symbolism in tribes to the north because they had different surroundings, but the symbols they used represented the core ideas of freedom, gender equality with a little extra given to the mother because she creates life, respect for elders because of the wisdom they held, and respect for nature that helped us survive.
These ideas and more were cultivated physically and mentally for millennia, and were practically ended 500 years ago.
I say practically because it's still believed, it’s just hard to practice it on occupied and polluted land.
I would be cautious of using Spanish and Catholic sources because it is known that those that chronicaled the invasion and establishment of new spain had their manuscripts rejected at least 2 times by the vatican, partly due to no god being mentioned, but gender equality, the lack of poverty, and free education was.
I'm ashamed I had never heard of this amazing site. Thank your for educating me. Fascinating.
Very cool. Thank you Matthew.
Really enjoy your videos, thank you.
I like that you included the word "known" in the title, because who knows how much we haven't found yet. And in some cases never will find.
We are gonna need some more videos on this site and surrounding area. If possible. Keep it up friend.
Short but excellent information .THANKS!
Getting spoiled with content lately.
Any new information on the Americas is fascinating to me.
Been a busy week 😂
Thank you for sharing ~ fascinating ruins ! 👍
Nice work Matt..
Thank you!
Hello, I'm Robin Leech, and this is Lifestyles of the Dead and Ancient
I have never heard of this one. Amazing
I hadn't even heard of this one previously...
Matt. Great research!
I always knew something was not right about dating American Indian civilization, ultimately proves comparable to Egyptian, Sumerian, Chinese and Indians. Their technological mastery may prove even better.
Caral, also a matriarchal society that displayed no, none, zero expressions of warfare, making it at the time of this writing the only known civilization/culture to do so. Very nice reporting Ancient Architects!
Wow! I didn't know that. Caral has been one of my favorite finds in S. America.
Really not evidence of matriarchy.
@@Ian-yf7uf keep digging. Corporate fun Documentary video mills like NOVA and National Geographic has already reported matriarchy.
@@billomaticles it's going to be just like the Minoan civilization, which was reported as matriarchal for decades, and then they realized it was ballocks.
@@Ian-yf7uf well, good luck with your predictions about the future.
Such an amazing find I saw a video of this a few weeks ago on another Channel amazing discovery
Incredible site
Thank you for this great information. As if that region isn't spectacular enough... and I could see myself living in a city where music and recreational drugs are more important than wars, any time.
There was just so much going on in so many places, it seems, before we supposedly became 'civilised' & city-fied. Would love a crystal ball that could zoom in on these ancient times & places... for just a glimpse of how things truly were (if we could understand them.) Thanks for sharing, Matt.
The Palantíri aren't all accounted for, so be careful about who is watching, don't wanna get your mind poisoned by Sauron ;D
So glad you added the word "known" to the title it doesn't seem like it matters but it does.
Well, new discoveries are made all the time :)
Exactly it always seems very narrow minded and a little dogmatic at times. Although I do understand there is a lot of fringe nonsense not based on evidence. But it also feels like sometimes the "mainstream" doesn't dare venture from the established narrative even when evidence may suggest otherwise.
@@AncientArchitects I like your approach it very humble but still knowledge with a open mind to the more bizarre theories
Very intresting topic thanks for the share
Thanks for watching
Agreed 💯 thanks prime cut video perciate it Hombre stay healthy safe travels 😘
very cool ...thank you
Thanks for watching
3:13 those flutes are fuckin badass - 4:40 fascinating
So this is a site as old as ancient Shuruppak and there is a site possibly as old as Uruk. Very fascinating. I wonder what preceded such a civilization and whether there can be found a cultural development such as in Mesopotamia with Ubaid site of Eridu. You mentioned they used drugs and I'm very interested in what kind of substances they used. The style of the art suggest strong symbolic and visionary culture. Thanks for sharing information on this fascinating site and looking forward to more in depth video.
Top dig...
Around of applause.
Good work Ancient. 😎
Visited a lot of ancient sites in Peru myself. Also sites as Caral, Chan Chan, Chavín de Huantar etc. But also a lot of former Inca "settlements".
Those Inca settlements look surreal, because of their differences in architecture. Mostly you see verry complex architectures in the "cores" of a site, surrounded by roughly build exteriors or repair works. The differences are just way too big. Especially if you look to the existence of the Inca Empire (roughly from 1400 to 1500). Technology and knowledge is not going to be drastically lost in just 100 years. I believe there were older civilizations before the Inca's. And the Inca's just have found and extended these sites.
It's quite possible if you look to older civilizations that were existing in Peru. When looking to Caral or Chavín. The cores of those Inca settlements btw have some slight resembles to the site of Chavín de Huantar with it's clean cuts, which was build roughly 1000 years before the Inca empire.
3,000 Yeats b.c AND 1,500 Yeats before that the incas
amazing!!! what i would do to see this place on its prime !
Thanks to Chat GPT and a conversation about pre-columbian civilizations, I discovered the Norte Chico and Valdivia culture !
Excellent. Had not heard about this site.
Great info a really good program thank you
It must have been fantastic to live there and enjoy life. That design is futuristic ask me. And that front circular structure, cool.
May I know the source of the picture from Sechin Bajo at time 6:10? I'm curious about the human figure in the picture since he (or she?) has six fingers. This reminds me of some very ancient pictures from the Old World of human figures with the same number of fingers. If I'm not wrong it's related to some legends of nobility from a long forgotten time.
Awesome work again mate. Peace from Berkshire.
I'd love to see an update on this. How buried was it when found. Where did the covering come from?
I have been to this place in Peru - pretty cool
No matter how powerful or knowledgeable you and your society become, eventually the world will forget about you.
Love the intro music 🤣
The depth of time is staggering. We are closer in time to Julius Ceasar than Ceasar was to the builders of Caral. And we are closer in time to the builders of Caral than they were to the builders of the Tas Tepeler sites.
the time line keeps rolling back. that there were advanced civilizations in Peru building pyrimids and cities at this early date, and possibly earlier, is mind blowing. so, where is the so-called cradle of civilization? the Middle East or, perhaps, Peru? i think archaeologists shouldn't make claims of "oldest". it seems there are always new finds that push it further back.
good show, old boy. thanks!
"Oldest" = "oldest known at the moment". The media reports it as "oldest" for headlines, not peer reviewed journals. It's pretty much recognized now that there were at least 5 "cradle of civilizations". All of them were along major river systems.
I remember this from a long time ago. The Khipu (pronounced key-poo), I'm pretty sure it's not binary. It's knotting system is very complex.
Never heard of Caral, Peru, ty.
Thanks for watching
Is it just me or does 4k year feel abit short in general? Surely there has to have been civilizations earlier than that?
Villages and small settlements I’m sure, it’s really finding out when there was a first organised society. Also, maybe there were earlier civilisations, but maybe they used wood instead of stone, so not easy to find. 🤷♂️
As Matt says in the video it depends on what your definition for a civilization is. If you look up the requirements used by mainstream it is not easy to be considered a civilization.
"surely" - no evidence for it...
@Rojiv4, check out Mario Buildreps videos concerning the `age` of ancient megalithic structures. You may be quite surprised to find that Caral may actually date back to having been originally occupied from @700,000 years ago until 340,000 years ago. That being said, the site may also have been habituated by succeeding civilizations up to the dates Matt describes - I do not doubt that carbon-dating of the fibrous bags are in error.
here is a link to Mario`s specific video concerning Caral.
ua-cam.com/video/IQ3IenSNGgA/v-deo.html
@@ddocspeck I looked up your boy Mario and found this:
Would you believe our ancestors were once created through genetic engineering by an extraterrestrial species, the Anunnaki? The gods, the extraterrestrials, who descended from the sky? That would explain a lot:
Why we never found the Missing Links between Homo Erectus and Homo Sapiens (that's us). The number of difference between the two species is estimated at a whopping 1,650,000. That are about 4 (harmless) mutations per year! How the hell does this kind of evolution work?
Do We Like to Manipulate
Because We Are Manipulated?
What if there is no Missing Link? What if we are really created by genetic engineering? And the rest of the animals around us are the product of evolution? So, both. Scientists don't like that. Neither do creationists. Both want mono-theories only, which is caused by a dualistic nature: "I am right, and you are wrong."
Scientific theories are constantly overthrown by new ones, for it is incomplete by nature. That counts for Abrahamism too. They believe in the same God, but are still fighting eachother. Fighting for an illusion, while scientists are probing an illusion. Both doing the same thing seemingly differently.
What happens when slaves know the truth? They will revolt.
We as a slave species are constantly fed with lies, covered with a sauce of 'scientific' or 'religious' rubbish. We buy it. That is because we have a slave gene implanted, that whispers to us constantly from deep below: "Yes sir, yes sir. Immediately sir. Everything you say is true, sir. Thank you, sir."
That explains also why most of us are so easy to manipulate, because we've got slave genes implanted. The slave gene is somewhere brought in, in the junk part. It also explains why we like to modify organisms ourselves (GMO). It is similar as abused people who may become abusers themselves.
He is lying to us. He asks what if there is no missing link? Trying to suggest that there is 1. There isn't. He talks about 1.650,000 differences without actually telling us what he is referring to but i assume he is talking about genetics and a child can have up to something like 45 "differences" from it's parents. So ya that kind of evolution does work.
Of coarse scientific theories are overthrown by new ones. That's just proof that we are learning more and that crap he says about "i am right and you are wrong" is a lie. The theories would never change if that was the case. I hate to tell him this but claiming that all scientists believe in god is wrong. Then he starts blabbering about lies and a "HIDDEN" slave gene. This dude is gonna end up pissing in jars and wearing tin foil hats.
Think i will pass on clicking that link of yours. It leads down that rabbit hole where i don't wanna go.
great info
Already love it. 0:13 in.
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visited this place in 2010.
Wow. Jealous!
@@AncientArchitects I was in a no picture taking phase of my life when I went there. So I have nothing to share in that regards. Gave the handouts away a long time ago. I remember the bus ride and small hotel we stayed at. But it was a reminder of the significance of pyramids all over the world and 3000 BC - when "modern civ" started in various places. Now world is dominated by a massive SOCIAL PYRAMID. But all pyramid societies collapse...within a decade our current MENTAL PYRAMID will collapse. Something new coming...
Thanks, as always.
Muchas gracias,
Very interesting.
AA staying based AF!!!
good work matt!
Thank you!
Thanks Matt.
That image at 6:11 is actually from another archeological site called Cerro Sechin, belonging to a different culture that existed long after the Cerro Bajo site. People tend to frequently confuse those two sites since they’re so close to each other. I visited Cerro Sechin a couple years ago. Really creepy place.
Yes I saw it before but now I see your new logo Matt. I like it, it's cool. I'm still waiting for your "I was wrong video" about the great pyramid. I swear it's an ionizing chamber to charge particles to create rain and the ark/arc was the key...something to think about lol.
Sounds like a culture that would suit me nicely. Let's start it up again!
Could you please display North on the overhead shots?
Maybe worth a future episode: While science is in agreement that African/Middle East/Indian earliest cities emerged in great part due to the organized defenses, marked by fortifications, Caral is for now the only known early city culture that seem to emerge based on trade alone. There is no evidence of fortifications (while i is clear from other structures that they could easily have created defenses if needed/wanted). Interesting aspect...
Viewing such as this sets me in mind of an old poem, I'm sure most know.
"I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said-“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.””
So it goes for all civilizations, eventually. Nothing remains but the barest of dregs for the future to puzzle over.
As it will for ours.
John~
American Net'Zen
I've always thought Shelley put a double edge on this. Ozymandias may be just a broken statue in a wasteland but the traveller knows his name, even after thousands of years.
@@tpxchallenger Hmm....now that's a way of interpreting I hadn't considered. Thanks!
Sounds like the origins of Burning Man. I like it.
I like your new logo
Just like Egypt, wonder if it's older than archaeologists say. Could stretch back to the end of the last ice age 11,600 years ago. Also, what about the Olmecs?
Qui is pronounced as "KEY". A quipu would be pronounces as "KEY-PU"
Thank you. Noted!
The 'quippu" was featured in one episode of the TV series "Numbers".
I’ve seen some wonderful things in my life. But going through ur list I’ve seen nothing! I was at my travelling best when my marriage broke up and I could FLY like a bird. Though I have to admit I was on my ex’s cargo ship as officers were allowed to take their wives - we had gotten married and a month later I was in PNG & for 7/8 months I got to see a lot of countries and being the only wife on board the Captain would let us go on days out.
I have done Europe- nearly all of Australia ( I go to Darwin to see my grandson soon) anyways before I start my stories.
I love seeing places 1. I’ve never knew about. 2. That That I would really love to see. BUCKET LIST # 3 coming up!
Thank you AA
I'm still waiting for technology to give us an affordable preferably automated way of getting widespread detailed images of the sea floor and what lies buried beneath it.
I have a strong feeling that there were long lasting reasonably advanced civilizations along some coastal areas before the sea level rise at the beginning of this interglacial period. As sea levels rose and continued to flood their newly moved cities generation after generation they eventually dispersed and moved inland, some moving up river valleys and later founding inland settlements. This could also be the origin of the widespread flood myths. It should be easy to find evidence of this whenever we get the technology to look for such things.
There are Hundreds of Underwater Citys or structures already found. All around the river Basins. Why is nobody looking at the Amazon River 150m under water? There should be something.
I'm shocked I never heard of this.