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Pachacamac, Inca's sacred place

Located 30 km south of Lima, Pachacamac is one of the cities of the Andes which has been inhabited for the longest time. It is also one of the three more sacred sites of the Inca Empire. Peter Eeckhout, famous archaeologist and teacher of history of precolombian art and archaeology at the Free University of Brussels, doctor of philosophy and letters specialized in history of art and archaeology, author of many works and articles about precolombian art, has become the specialist of the excavations at Pachacamac. For years now, he digs out the soil of the peruvian ancestors and tries with his team to find out the mystery of the 18 pre-inca pyramids. Those monuments have for a long time been considered as religious buildings, but, as a result of the discoveries of Peter Eeckhout, they could well be andine secular palaces. According to his own words: “If the excavations at Pachacamac reveal the existence of palaces, then it could well be that the power was more shared between chiefs and priests than it has been thought up to now. The peoples without handwriting of Peru have left signs to understand their civilization. We have now to lend the ear for listening to their voices.” That hypothesis brings now a start to another look on the peruvian antiquity...