New Book In Progress: Enigmas Of The Ancient Paracas Culture Of Peru

One of the least understood of all ancient cultures of Peru is the Paracas, who lived on the coast near Nazca from 1000 BC to about 100 AD. Their name comes from the much later Inca, Para Uca, which means “place of raining sand. We have no idea what the Paracas called themselves.

In their social structure, elite members had quite pronounced elongated heads, most being the result of cranial deformation, yet the earliest ones may have in fact been born this way, according to the many physicians that have examined them with me.

And academics can’t explain, or even refuse to address that the elite Paracas had genetically red hair; Native Americans do not share this characteristic, so at least part of the Paracas’ ancestry must come from another part of the world; likely the Middle East…

It is quite possible that the Paracas were capable of building massive sailing craft, from local totora reed with cotton for sails; a knowledge that came from their Middle Eastern forebears that built similar craft from papyrus?

And the Paracas created some of the finest ceramics in ancient Peru, far superior to the later Inca and may in fact had knowledge of the potters’ wheel, which was a Middle Eastern invention. This book is a work in progress, and you will be alerted when it is complete.

I have created a video on demand page featuring adventures in Egypt, Lebanon and Mexico. Each video is between 45 minutes and 1 hour and 20 minutes and can be seen HERE.

Explore ancient Egypt with us in March 2017; full itinerary HERE.