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First South American Civilisation Wiped Out by Earthquake

Thursday, January 22, 2009

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First South American Civilisation Wiped Out by Earthquake

About 3,800 years ago, residents of Supe Valley in Peru’s coastal desert, 120 miles north of Lima, had just created a flourishing society complete with tall pyramids (thousands of years before the Maya). They were fishing and growing cotton and vegetables, when disaster struck and the forces of nature wiped them out. Just like that.

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