Rising in Peru’s Supe Valley around 2600 BCE, Caral is the oldest known city in the Americas, built with pyramids, sunken plazas, and no evidence of writing, pottery, or war.

Caral, in the Supe Valley of Peru, is the oldest known city in the Americas — built with pyramids, sunken plazas, and clever earthquake-proof foundations at the very same time as the Great Pyramid of Egypt, yet with almost no sign of war.

In a Peruvian desert, a lost civilization built pyramids at the same time as the Egyptians, with no contact between them. Inside Caral, the oldest known city in the Americas.

In a dry valley a little inland from the Peruvian coast stand the eroded remains of what may be the oldest city in all the Americas. Caral, in the Supe