WALLS OF PORPHYRY.
ANCIENT PERUVIAN CITY. •‘PACIFIC CONTINENT.” LIMA (Peru), Jan. 30. Dr. William M. McGovern .(an authority on anthropology and Oriental studies, and lecturer in the latter subject at London University) announces the discovery of traces of a civilisation in Peru dating from 1000 years before the Christian era. Dr. McGovern has just returned with a Party of archaeologists from an expedition to the peninsula of Paracas, regarded by geologists as one of the few remnants of an old Pacific continent which existed before the rise of the Andean Mountains. The party located the walls, built of porphyry (a valuable purple and white stone), of a city of unknown extent. The walls were under 30ft of sand. Close by they discovered traces of . a village cemetery with many burial caverns.
Many traces have previously been found along the coast of Peru of a civilisation different from, and apparently older than, that of the Incas. Originating on the Andean plateau, the power of the . Incas was later extended to the Pacific coast.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 13 February 1926, Page 6
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