The “Tropical Stonehenge”
July 13th, 2006
This is neat, but isn’t it a little disingenous to say it’s a discovery when the locals have known about it all along? Silly archaeologists.
Last month, archaeologists working on a hillside north of Lima, Peru, announced the discovery of the oldest astronomical observatory in the Western Hemisphere — giant stone carvings, apparently 4,200 years old, that align with sunrise and sunset on Dec. 21.
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