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