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A glimpse of lost language

• Americas • Ancient Writing • Archaeological Sites Tags Lost Language • Blog • Chimú • Discoveries • El Brujo Archaeological Complex • Lambayeque • Lost Languages • Magdalena de Cao Viejo • Moche culture • Peru • Pescadora • preceramic • pyramids • Quechua • Quingnam • Sacred Texts • Señora de Cao

A glimpse of lost language

In the early 1600s in northern Peru, a curious Spaniard jotted down some notes on the back of a letter. Four hundred years later, archaeologists dug up and studied the paper, revealing what appear to be the first traces...

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