Scientists discover ancient city in Peru

Scientists discover ancient city in Peru

Scripps Howard News Service

(April 26, 2001 2:20 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - While the Egyptians were building some of the first pyramids 4,600 years ago, their Peruvian contemporaries were building stone platform mounds, plazas and canals in what new dating techniques show to be the oldest major city in the Americas.

New radiocarbon dates from plant fibers indicate that the city known as Caral in central Peru was thriving between 2600 and 2000 B.C., more than a thousand years be