Lost Monuments of the “People of the Cloud Forest” Unearthed at Gran Pajatén

Lost monuments of the “people of the cloud forest” unearthed at Gran Pajatén

The World Monuments Fund (WMF) has announced the discovery of more than 100 previously undocumented structures at Gran Pajatén, located within Peru’s Río Abiseo National Park.

More than 100 archaeological structures discovered in the Peruvian Andes

Built by the Chachapoya civilisation, known as the “people of the cloud forest”, the structures are located within a Unesco Mixed World Heritage site 500km north of Lima

In the dense forests of the Andes, researchers have discovered archeological structures of the Chachapoya that were previously hidden in the fog. These findings open up new perspectives for understanding ancient civilizations.

In the Peruvian National Park Río Abiseo researchers with modern scanning methods found important archaeological structures in the dense rainforest