Lines of stones

researchers found in southern Peru some lines, composed of stones. Two of them, when viewed from a certain point, point to 5-meter pyramid, reports Live Science.

Lines were also aligned with respect to the sun during the winter solstice. It is possible to find out thanks to three-dimensional modeling using special software. Geoglyphs located at a distance of 2 km from piramidy.

Their length is about 500 m. The pyramid had a flat top and was made of adobe. Next to the pyramid were found several artifacts, including the remains of cloth, shells and keramiki.

The pyramid was situated not far from the settlement, where about one thousand. People. The building was built in the period of about 600 years. BC. 50 years. BC Lines of stones, according to scientists, were created between 500 BC. BC. and 400 years. BC In addition to these two lines near the pyramids have been found about 50 such structures made of stones. The longest of them reaches a length of 1.5 thousand. M.

Along these lines, it has been found more than 200 small cairns. The largest had a diameter of 15 m. These pyramids are widely distributed throughout the world, but as a rule they are burial structures. Cairn in Peru had no human ostankov.

Apparently line and pyramids were associated with the nearby settlements and pyramids that are in them. To date, close to the place of the ancient settlement found four, two of which were the great pyramids. In one settlement has been discovered an ancient burial holm.

Source: zhelezyaka.com/novosti/arheologiya/v-peru-obnaruzheny-linii-iz-kamney--vyrovnennye-po-solncu-8296/