This site consisted of another adobe pyramid, with seven levels, in a large square. It was built by the Lima culture between 400 and 700 CE.
The site is located in the middle of Lima.
Lima is the capital city of Peru and home to over 7 million people.
The mud bricks were all formed by hand and dried in the sun.
Which means that these are the handprints of someone who lived 1500 years ago.
This pyramid was constructed with the bricks positioned vertically, with mortar at the top and bottom and small spaces in between the brick. This made the pyramid more earthquake resistant.
The walls were built in small trapezoidal sections instead of square edges to make it more stable.
The temple was reused by the later Wairani people to bury some important people. This is a recreation of one of their tombs in the top of the temple.
A large part of the pyramid still has not been excavated, and just looks like a big dirt hill in the middle of the city.
The transition to the excavated bricks on the other side looks funny.
The pyramid had a lot of bricks.
