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Originally Posted by StylinRed
5,000 year old ruins torn down by property developers in Peru
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Unfortunately, this happens ALL THE TIME.
Mexico is the worst for it.
Just a few months ago part of a Nazca line was taken out.
There is little the international community can do unless these sites are protected under UNESCO.
OH, and something to think about....the public finds all this always so shocking and adopt this whole, "OMG, HOW COULD THEY" attitude towards this stuff, but what would you say if a site out in Pitt Meadows that represented some of the earliest adoption of agriculture in the PNW and dated older than this Peru site is now sitting under the new Abernathy Way.
Or, how about a 10,000 year old site that is now a vineyard just outside of Kamloops?
May not be a pretty little pyramid, but it is no less important. I could blow your mind with the shit that has been destroyed in the province for the sake of "progress".
Don't see those stories on the news, do you?