Archaeologists Discover 4,000-Year-Old Ancient 3D Mural In Peru

Archaeologists Discover 4,000-Year-Old Ancient 3D Mural In Peru

Imagine stumbling upon a 4,000-year-old mural that looks like it could belong in a modern art gallery. That’s exactly what archaeologists in northern Peru just did—and the discovery is rewriting what we know about the continent’s earliest civilizations.The three-by-six meter wall, uncovered at the Huaca Yolanda site in La Libertad, is a multicolored, three-dimensional masterpiece. The double-sided mural is part of the interior decoration of a co…

More Than 3,000-Year-Old Multicolored Pre-Inca Mural Discovered At Huaca Yolanda, Peru - Ancient Pages

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - At the archaeological site of Huaca Yolanda, situated 500 miles north of Lima, the capital of Peru, researchers have unearthed a three-dimensional multicolored mural believed to be between 3,000 and 4,000 years old. The polychrome mural found at Huaca Yolanda. Photo courtesy PUCP. This extraordinary finding, created by a relatively obscure […]