Caral, Americas’ Oldest City

with Georges Fery, IMS Fellow, accomplished writer, photographer... a lifelong student of the ancient cultures of the Americas

When King Narmer unified Egypt in the Early Dynastic Period (3150 BCE), Caral was already an important metropolis spread across 160 acres, twenty miles upstream in the Supe river valley of the so-called Norte Chico in northern Peru.

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Georges Fery
lives in Dallas, TX and is a lifelong student of ancient cultures of the Americas, their yesteryears history, rituals, religion, and social organization. A longtime member and Fellow of the Institute of Maya Studies as well as the Royal Geographical Society. Over the last 40 years, together with fellow members of above institutions together with local archaeologists and scholars, 168 ancient sites, to this day, in North, Central and South America. His articles are published in the quarterly magazine Ancient American (ancientamerican.com), as well as online in popular-archaeology.com, travelthruhistory.com, and mexicolore.co.uk.

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