Rise of Caral
One of the Americas' first cities, as old as the pyramids
In Peru's Supe Valley, the city of Caral grew up with platform mounds and sunken plazas. Contemporary with Egypt's pyramids, it is one of the oldest cities in the Americas, built by a society without pottery or writing.
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The Peruvian city of Caral, with its stepped pyramids, flourished in the same age as Egypt's pyramids — more than 4,000 years before the Incas.
Alive at the time
- Khufu (Cheops) (aged 20)