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Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo: 4,000-Year-Old Temple, Mural Found in Peru


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Archaeologists work at the clay temple Ventarron in the northern city of Lambayeque, Peru, on November 10, 2007.

Archaeologists have dug up a 4,000-year-old clay temple filled with murals, one of oldest finds in the Americas, scientist Walter Alva said on Saturday

Photograph by Ignacio Alva/Reuters (handout)