Recently in delhi a press conference was held at Press Council Of India on behalf of His Excellency Carlos Yrigoyen Forno , the Acting Ambassador of Peru in India the press conference with World-renownearcheologist Ruth Shady for the first time in India to share her startling revelations on the discovery of the oldest urban civilization in the world & the oldest civilization of the Americas-the ancient city of Caral in Peru.
Ruth Shady Solís is a Peruvian anthropologist and archeologist. She is also founder and director of the Archeological project Caral.Throughout her career, she directed many different projects of archeological investigation on the coast, the highlands and the rain forests of Peru, placing emphasis on the study of the development of the complex socio-political organizations. She was director of the Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Antropología del Perú (Nacional museum of Arqueology and Antropology of Peru), and director of the Museum of Archeology and Anthropology of National University of San Marcos. She has worked at the Caral site from 1994 onwards and is credited with the discovery of the first known civilization of Peru; Shady has named the civilization after Caral, while the term Norte Chico has been adopted in English.
She holds the offices of President of ICOMOS-PERU, principal professor and co-ordinator of the master of archeology graduate program faculty of social sciences of the UNMSM and director of the special archeological project Caral-Supe/INC.
India is holding for the first time the XII International Conference of the National Trustees and Ms Ruth Shady has been invited by INTACH (India National Trust for Art & Cultural Heritage) to share her discoveries with everybody.
The discovery of Caral reshapes the history of Peru as well as the history of the world. From now on besides Mesopotamia, Egypt, India and China, Peru have to be included with the exceptional testimony of such an old culture of peace.
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