Discovery of 5,000-year-old fire altar reveals shocking secret

A 5,000-year-old fire altar was discovered at the center of the oldest civilization in the Americas. The artifact holds many interesting details.

Accordingly, at the Era de Pando archaeological site located in the Supe Valley, northwest of Peru's Sacred City of Caral-Supe, archaeologists discovered a 5,000-year-old fire altar. Photo: @Ministry of Culture of Peru.

The Era de Pando archaeological site is linked to the Caral–Supe civilization, a pre-Columbian society that existed long before the construction of the Egyptian Pyramids and nearly two millennia before the rise of the Olmecs, so the discovery of a 5,000-year-old fire altar reveals new secrets about the oldest center of civilization in the Americas. Photo: @Ministry of Culture of Peru.

Era de Pando contains 48 ancient structures arranged around a central space, including pyramid-shaped buildings, temples and various architectural civil houses. Photo: @Ministry of Culture of Peru.

And archaeologists from the Caral Archaeological Zone (ZAC), Executive Unit 003 of the Peruvian Ministry of Culture, recently conducted research on the pyramid-shaped C1 Building located at the center of the site. Photo: @Ministry of Culture of Peru.

Here, archaeologists excavated a strange circular altar. Photo: @Peruvian Ministry of Culture.

According to experts, this is a fire altar, a sacred area used for spiritual rituals regularly held in the Era de Pando center. Photo: @Ministry of Culture of Peru.

The fire altar is about 7 meters in diameter and in front of it is a rectangular courtyard 16 meters long and 8 meters wide. The area of ​​the fire altar can be accessed by a staircase. Photo: @Ministry of Culture of Peru.

Archaeologists from the Caral Archaeological Site (ZAC) say access to this sacred space was reserved for select religious, political and social leaders in the Era de Pando settlement center. Photo: @Ministry of Culture of Peru.

During private rituals, these elite groups gathered at fire altars to burn offerings such as beads, quartz fragments, fish, mollusks, and agricultural products,... Photo: @Ministry of Culture of Peru.

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(According to heritagedaily)

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