Huaca Huallamarca
Stepped adobe pyramid over two thousand years old, once a temple and cemetery holding dozens of ancient funerary bundles.
This guide to Huaca Huallamarca in Lima opens in 1958, when archaeologist Arturo Jimenez Borja's crew, digging into a stepped adobe mound in the middle of a new apartment neighborhood, uncovered dozens of bundled human remains near its summit. It traces the platform back some two thousand two hundred years to the Huallas who first raised it, and follows its long reuse as a temple and burial ground through the Ychsma culture and into Inca times, long before Pizarro declared his new capital nearby. The mound also carried a gentler nickname, Pan de Azucar, sugar loaf, for its rounded shape.
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