{"id":897,"date":"2007-11-12T05:31:41","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T05:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/11\/12\/4k-old-temple-with-murals-in-p\/"},"modified":"2007-11-12T05:31:41","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T05:31:41","slug":"4k-old-temple-with-murals-in-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/12\/4k-old-temple-with-murals-in-p\/","title":{"rendered":"4K Old Temple with Murals in Peru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"float: right; padding: 5px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-e4c1437f1059a9a69f9f35aabb97b327-Peru_mural.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-e4c1437f1059a9a69f9f35aabb97b327-Peru_mural.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/span>A mural-decorated temple that may date to 4,000 years old is being reported from the coastal desert region of Northern Peru.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some of the walls of the 27,000-square-foot site &#8211; almost half the size of a football field &#8211; were painted, and a white and red mural depicts a deer being hunted with a net.Alva said the temple was apparently constructed by an &#8220;advanced civilization&#8221; because it was built with mud bricks made from sediment found in local rivers, instead of rocks.&#8221;This discovery shows an architectural and iconographic tradition different from what has been known until now,&#8221; said Alva, who discovered and is the museum director for another important pre-Incan find, the nearby Lords of Sipan Moche Tombs. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news114018063.html\">[source]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mural-decorated temple that may date to 4,000 years old is being reported from the coastal desert region of Northern Peru. Some of the walls of the 27,000-square-foot site &#8211; almost half the size of a football field &#8211; were painted, and a white and red mural depicts a deer being hunted with a net.Alva &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/12\/4k-old-temple-with-murals-in-p\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">4K Old Temple with Murals in Peru<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[112],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-et","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}