Pyramids of Caral-Supe belongs to the years before the Common Era — dated here to c. 2600 BCE at Supe Valley, Peru. The date is a scholarly centre of gravity, not a foundation-stone timestamp.
The oldest city in the Americas raised platform pyramids, sunken circular courts, and a quipu-using society with no ceramics.
How it was made
Shicra bags of stones, aligned plazas, and a desert coast urbanism as old as Khufu.
Why it still counts as a wonder
It never needed a Greek list to be a wonder: the labour, the alignment, or the survival is enough.
It rewrites “New World late.” A wonder contemporaneous with Giza, independently invented.
On dating
BCE in this series means years before the traditional birth of Christ, counted backward. A monument listed as c. 2600 BCE may have been founded earlier, rebuilt later, or famous only in one phase. Where ancient writers disagree — as they do for Babylon’s gardens — we say so.
This is story 94 of 100 in The Trend Ledger’s illustrated desk on world wonders raised before the Common Era.