[Mb-civic] Explorers Find Ancient City in Remote Peru Jungle

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Explorers Find Ancient City in Remote Peru Jungle

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=LLTBSEPNH4BMWCRBAEOCFFA?type=scienceNews&storyID=6000576

An ancient walled city complex inhabited some 1,300 years ago by a culture 
later conquered by the Incas has been discovered deep in Peru's Amazon 
jungle, explorers said on Tuesday.

U.S. and Peruvian explorers uncovered the city, which may have been home to 
up to 10,000 people, after a month trekking in Peru's northern rain forest 
and following up on years of investigation about a possible lost metropolis 
in the region.

The stone city, made up of five citadels at 9,186 feet above sea level, 
stretches over around 39 square miles and contains walls covered in 
carvings and figure paintings, exploration leader Sean Savoy told Reuters.

"It is a tremendous city ... containing areas with stone etchings and 
10-meter (33-foot) high walls," said Savoy, who had to hack through trees 
and thick foliage to finally reach the site on Aug. 15.

According to early accounts by Spanish conquistadors who arrived in Peru in 
the early 1500s, the Chachapoyas were a fair-skinned warrior tribe famous 
for their tall stature. Today they are known for the giant burial coffins 
sculpted into human figures found in the northern jungle region.



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