WEBLD wics. nan A SIDON ees] of alegendary city _.VAGNARI= Feira Rip ends ol ed greatest landowner? BERINGIAN | STANDSTILL Ta eye LoDEY land bridge refugeINCA GOLD AT PACOPAMPA Archocolgis investigating the Late Formative Pred temple complvatPacopampa esturedin CWA7S) dscovered ca offeings deposited more than 1000 years after the sie was abandoned The find suggests that ancestral ceremenial centres ‘maintained ther spntal crnection with subsequent cultures Leng afer ther rgnal inhabitants were os ta hing meen Archaeologist rom the acopampa Achaedlogcal Project a by Professors Vy Seki aed Dari! Morales Chocang esting the Square Sunken Courton the south-east come ofthe Third upper Pam of the compe, decovereda gold guing two her ty Vongpinsused to secureashan and smasher needa along with agents bri “Thecarhe nad been paced the bottom of animverted-cone shaped pit den deep vhicheut through the archaclogcl yes to sterile scl beneath Thebasewaslined wth rectangular stones carved frm veleanic rock plecedinsucha wayasto create aprotctve' chest around the cache “Thegokl statuette nearly 4Som al ane weighing just unc 30g, dics feral gure standng with her ars tonardsher chest and her hair BYJUPITER “The Ancient abyonans coud pect the passage of Jupiter trough therightt hic heyreanded on canoxm abies ~ roe tan + coruriesbetore such teingues were seen in Europe “The dscoudy was made by Mathieu Osendiver of bolt LUniversityin Beri, who studied five cuneiform tablets that date to betwegsOanil GDB resiea clang scan exenatons ‘near the main temple Esagia in Babylon, and now held by the British ‘useumin London ect “They cor calculations for she ime and vlocty ofthe plane's {journey over 60 days. Four describe an area covered over acertain Paro of tease taped butters court be comeced toaramed planet. Howeve; ven Ossndiper amined the th, proud able he noted speci meron per — andi tier i er ciheraretlcs “Though comtemporary Greeks and Egyptians had mastered _srromyth parr geomet ned seas Osncger ‘lant Themotion ofa plane fom cy ody gonealy computed fm is vloaty hihi the dtane covered pet. ‘dy ur riculyon these alts the total distance covered rracetan pe cf trl de carpi aea tinder the eapezoid figure obtain by drawing voc east seunerdarchaalgycam braided donner bad as placed upside down wth the head ceredtotheouth Pacopag was abandenedat the endoftheForratve ered in about 300 8. However we krow tata rng the Early jaca Period of AD 100-50 the Sunken Court vas covered vith aerating ters of so ardstenes Then dug theLate Horizon Feriod AD H76- 83) thelncs dugout sealed face of ‘the Pacoparpa Sunken Court tobury theirofeings The team} sks discovered evidence of occupation durg the Fra Cajararca Period (AD "200-1532 atthe La Capi stjust 300 ayy an sreasurruncedly tyodeep diches -theigh tsuncear whether these defences were designe to heep auth lncasor the Spanish Conquistadors tappeas therefore that the Pacopampa ceria cerire retained sgiteance for subsequent soietesin the region, incudng the cas opening new debate about he ele of suchstes ‘that were abandoned atthe ene ofthe Frrative aio but which ‘thenbecarne anirtegral part the socal dyariesof ler cultures Prof. Yj Seki told CWA, "is probable that Pacopampa was ‘rasformed ver tneirtoa sired and ancestral space where ancestors deed Thelnca Rajal Roadrure song the foot the complex sothey \wouldhave been famiarwith theancertremains Rital iy offerings of got or sber fgures during thelna Period hovebeen feund at mary archucologialsesbutinmmost / cases edo not naw thar rg source or contexts, whichis why the Pacopara nis iemportant? [ABOVE LEFT Th Square Sunken Couron the Thi Paferm ofthe Pcopamp Ceres Complex INSET The smal glen ca feral gurne [ABOVERIGHT One ofthe serps ha pine RIGHT A fagrnent of teat faith the oferrgs. “Thisappreachwilappear king fair to students pyscsared mathematics tod ait atcpates modern negra clas that can be traced toa group of Mt century chor at Oxf ho clei the “Merorian ean speed tore) and the French bahop ascot philosopher Neos Oreme, who cme up wih sf method Oserdiver tot Ct posse that the method was ao sed or therphnets However, loiter as of special gniance nthe chy of Baty: twas the astra manifestation of Markl the abonan supreme god andthe astonomersn Babylon who uree these ables were probably employe that tele LOW LEFT Canela tet wth cto ht che tapezo BELOW RIGHT The tance andy pi se 0 daa 15, Computed asthe aaofthetapeod Te taperthen ded ro 0 ster einer fed hte Gol whch rer icine. GiorWonoAnowcioor 7 SMIN-