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pyramid torn down by real estate developers ... again

Postby The Madame X » Sun Jul 07, 2013 9:54 am

4000-year-old pyramid torn down by real estate developers
July 04, 2013
Full article at: http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/4000- ... ers-387782

Lima: Real estate developers using heavy machinery tore down a 20-foot (6-meter) tall pyramid at the oldest archaeological site near Peru's country's capital, cultural officials said on Wednesday.

Rafael Varon, deputy minister of cultural patrimony, told reporters the destruction occurred over the weekend at the ruins of El Paraiso, a few miles (kilometers) north of Lima.

He said Wednesday his agency has lodged criminal complaints against the two companies for the weekend's damage, identified as the Alisol and Provelanz, and has moved to seize the equipment used. People who answered the telephone at both companies said no one was available to comment.

Peru's tourism ministry says El Paraiso was built some 4,000 years ago and was a religious and administrative center, long before the rise of the Inca culture encountered by the Spanish conquerors.

Marco Guilen, director of an excavation project at El Paraiso, said the people who tore down the pyramid "have committed irreparable damage to a page of Peruvian history."

"We are not going to be able to know in what ways it was constructed, what materials were used in it and how the society in that part of the pyramid behaved."

Varon said people apparently working for the two companies tore down one pyramid and tried to destroy three others, but were stopped by witnesses.

Mayor Freddy Ternero from the town where the ruins are located, San Martin de Porres, said the pyramids were located in agricultural fields and were not guarded, though he said the Minister of the Interior sent police to protect it after the incident.
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Re: pyramid torn down by real estate developers ... again

Postby The Madame X » Sun Jul 07, 2013 9:55 am

Irreparable damage was not only committed against Peruvian history but to world patrimony. This is not an isolated case. Many ancient sites and relics have been lost forever because of similar ignorance and disregard.
Personally it pains me to walk into museums and see so many antiquities taken from their original sites but I know that 1. If they were not brought to the museum I might never be able to witness them and 2. The locals do not appreciate having their country cluttered with ancient junk.
How about you? Does it matter that this Peruvian Pyramid is gone? How important is this ancient junk?
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Postby HellaLocke » Wed Jul 31, 2013 7:37 pm

This pains me too.. so much.
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Postby LouieLamiaMonferriz » Sat Aug 17, 2013 11:24 pm

Hmmmm see companys with money in the world think they can just damage take down and erase centurys and centurys of beautiful historical monuments with no regard to the damage economicly and emotionlly to the community..this travisty must be stopped...
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