ancient city was discovered in the dense Amazon rainforest and could reveal the secrets of a legendary tribe. Little is known of the People of the Clouds of Peru, an ancient civilization with white skin destroyed by disease and wars in the century. XVI, which archaeologists have now discovered a settlement. The tribe had white skin and blond hair, two characteristics that intrigue historians, because you do not know other people similar to Europeans in the region, where most of the indigenous inhabitants of the skin is rather dark.
The Lost City was discovered by a group of archaeologists in the middle of the jungle in one of the most remote areas of the Amazon. It is natural to the edge of an abyss, the tribe could use as a defense, to spy on the arrival of the enemy.
The Chachapoyas, also called Warriors of the Clouds, were an Andean people living in forests and dense fog in the region of the Peruvian Amazon. The territory of Chachapoyas is included in the triangular region formed by the confluence of the rivers and Utcubamba Marañon, in the zone of Bagua, up to Abiseo River basin. The size of the Marañon and the mountainous terrain have ensured that the region was relatively isolated.
The People of the Clouds time controlled a large territory, which extends through the Andes of northern Peru up to the Amazon jungle. Then they were subdued by the Incas.
Until recently, much of what was known about this legend came from the lost civilization of the Incas. Their culture is known for its fortress Kuellap, on top of a mountain in Utcubamba, which can be compared to its size only to the refuge of the Incas Machu Picchu, built a few centuries later. Even the name they called themselves is unknown. The word Chachapoyas, or 'People of the Clouds', was given to them by the Incas, because they lived in rainforests full of mist, like clouds. After the arrival of the Spaniards, they sided for the new colonialists against the Incas, but they were from epidemics of European diseases such as measles and smallpox.
The remains of their settlements, dating back to our sec. IX, were later destroyed by the looting, leaving little for archaeologists to be able to study. Some of these remains had been identified and studied, but scientists have high hopes last discovery, made by an expedition in the district of Jamalca in the Peruvian province of Utcubamba, about 800 km north-east of the capital, Lima. According to the archaeologist Benedict Goicochea Perez, their main settlement was made of circular stone houses and covered an area of \u200b\u200b50,000 square meters (five acres). Rock paintings cover some of the fortifications and residences are near the platforms, which is believed to serve to crush the seeds and plants for food and to extract principles for curative medicine.
Two years ago, archaeologists have found an underground burial vault built inside a cave with five mummies, two with intact skin and hair. The chronicler of Chachapoyas, Pedro Cieza de Leon wrote of this tribe: 'I am the whitest and most beautiful of all the people who have seen and their wives were so beautiful, because of their sophistication, many of them have deserved to become wives of the Incas and also to be made at the Temple of the Sun Women and their husbands are always dressed in woolen clothes on their heads and take their llautos (turbans of wool), a sign they wear to be accepted everywhere '.
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