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A burial mound at the Nazca site of Cahuachi, southern Peru. The 40 mounds at the site are built on natural hilltops using earth and adobe-brick retaining walls. The site was used for burials and religious ceremonies between 100 BCE and 550 CE.
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Original image by Antoine 49. Uploaded by Mark Cartwright, published on 07 July 2016 under the following license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs. This licence only allows others to download this content and share it with others as long as the author is credited, but they can't change the content in any way or use it commercially. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.
49, A. (2016, July 07). Burial Mound, Cahuachi. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.ancient.eu/image/5295/burial-mound-cahuachi/
49, Antoine. "Burial Mound, Cahuachi." World History Encyclopedia. Last modified July 07, 2016. https://www.ancient.eu/image/5295/burial-mound-cahuachi/.
49, Antoine. "Burial Mound, Cahuachi." World History Encyclopedia. World History Encyclopedia, 07 Jul 2016. Web. 11 Apr 2021.
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