Show ANCIENT CITY 1 11 CHAN CHANCHAN CHANCHA CHA today nothing but a mass of ruins but was flourishing before pl PI kaiyo ravished lavished Ravi shed peru chanchan chan chan Is not ns as tile alom would indicate a place in china jt it Is one of the oldest cities in peru oi or in tile tho world the chimus who bulli built chanchan chan chan are supposed to have been nn an elderly race when the incas were yet barbarians ani after a time the in as ens became elvil civilized lied and powerful and captured clinn chan clinn then co canio to plunder and ilia city and massacre the inhabitants so 90 much of tho the chimus history Is deducted ducted from the remains of chan cann and old spanish narratives the people who inhabited tile the old metropolis moon worshipers tho the moon they said was tile the most worthy deity of nature for it chono not only tit nt night but ant also in the day whereas the sun could shine in tile the day only tho sea was supposed to bo be under the special protection of tile tho moon because the latter controlled the tides images of fish and other sea dentures creatures and temples to both moon nod and sea were therefore built by bi I 1 tho the chimus alq aw jnnny hae beenu been un n covered in the ruins of their elty city chanchan chan chan clion tins has sanco the time of pt pl zorro been a heap of rec thero thera are palaces workshops factories find and great battered pyramids built up in terraces and surmounted by buildings building these tire are the mounds in ill which alii chimil dead once lay jay like uio hnyp inns these people burled buried with their theli dead ninny many article of their p personal OrS property front from one of all these ie mounds a n spanish adventurer obtained 3 worth of gold and silver for many funny years chan chon chan yielded 0 t tile the spanish conquerors fabulous sums of 9 gold old |