Archaeologists discover passageways under Peruvian temple
STORY: Under this 3,000 year old temple in the Peruvian Andes
Location: Ancash, Peru
archaeologists have discovered a network of passageways
Chavin de Huantar temple was once a religious and administrative center
At least 35 passageways have been found over years of excavations
They were built between the years 1,200 and 200 B.C.
[John Rick, Archaeologist, Stanford University]
"It's a passageway, but it's very different, it's a different form of construction. It has features from earlier periods that we've never seen in passageways. There wasn’t just one stone bowl, there were two.”
Chavin de Huantar was declared a World Heritage Site in 1985
