Show ANCIENT CITY 1 CHANCHAN today nothing but a mass of rutlt but was flourishing before lavished ravished Ravi shed peru chan chan Is not as the name would indicate a place in china it Is one of the oldest cities in peru or in the world the calmus who bunt chan chan are supposed to hae been an elderly race when the incas were s j yet barbarians after a time the in cas became civilized and powerful red 2 captured chan alian then pizarro came to plunder and wreck the city i and massacre the inhabitants S jj much of the calmus history Is deducted from the remains of chanchan chan chan and old spanish narratives the people who inhabited the alil metropolis were moon the moon they said was the most worthy deity of nature for it shone not only at night but also in the day whereas the sun could shine in the day only tiie sea was supposed to be under the special protection of tb moon because the latter controlled the tides images of elsh and other BOB creatures and temples to both moon and sea were therefore built by the calmus and many ha been na covered in the ruins of their city chan chan has since the time of pl been a heap of wreckage there are palaces workshops factories ana great battered pyramids built W la terraces and surmounted by buildings these are the mounds in which IM chimu dead once la I 1 ike the aliese people burled bilth their dead many articles of their personal property floru one of these mouna a spanish adventurer aden obtained worth of gold and salv alvr to w many geors chan chan sums vi f spanish conquerors fabulous gold |