The latest discovery by Claudia Sonea

Mankind is a mystery, a legend and nowadays generations are trying to discover how things have evolved and got to where it is today. Therefore the archeological searches and digs have the purpose of getting as close as possible to the beginning. El Comercio, a Peruvian newspaper, published Walter Alva's interview as head of the three month excavation and director of the Museum Tumbas Reales (Royal Tombs) of Sipan. He started in the 1980s to unearth the ancient Sipan complex and now he stumbled on the oldest finds in the Americas, a 4,000-year-old temple filled with murals. The temple is situated in Lambayeque valley on Peru's archeologically rich northern coastal desert. Ventarron, how it was called by the scientists, is inside a ruin and is linked to an altar that was used for worshipping fire and making offerings to deities through a staircase. The site has 27,000-square-foot and some of its walls are painted and a mural depicts a deer being hunted with a net. The construction material that is mud bricks made from sediment found in local rivers, instead of rocks, proves that the temple belonged to an advanced civilization. The fact that is 4,000 years old was revealed after a carbon testing in the United States and Alva made it public on Sunday. At Sipan, an administrative and religious center of the Moche culture, there was discovered also a gold-filled tomb built 1,700 years ago for a pre-Incan king. Peru is rich in archeological treasures with the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu in the Andes and the oldest known city in the Americas is Caral, also near the Peruvian coast, dating 2627 B.C. It is an important discovery and Alva takes great pride in it. Stay connected and discover through Internet what happens next.

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by Claudia Sonea for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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