THE ENIGMATIC SNAKE MOUNT

This enigmatic place called Monte Sierpe, also known as Monte de los Hoyos (Mountain of the Holes), is an astonishing archaeological formation of 5,200 perfectly aligned holes on a rocky ridge. Recent research has concluded that it was a complex system of accounting and trade dating back thousands of years before the Incas, but was that really the case?

 

 

 Researchers, with the help of drones and other equipment, believe they have solved one of the greatest enigmas of Peruvian archaeology... the truth is that this large row of holes at the top of a hill extends for 1.5 kilometers long and between 15 and 20 meters wide. The holes measure between 1 and 2 meters wide and 0.5 to 1 meter deep. It has been said that it was to store water, that it served to capture fog or store products, and there are those who say that it was the work of extraterrestrials.

  

This place gained great relevance when in 1933 the magazine NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC published photographs that caused a stir among researchers and archaeologists. It is important to note that MONTE SIERPE (Serpent Mountain) is located between two remote administrative centers and at the intersection of several ancient roads. Some believe that the symmetry of the holes evokes the quipus of the Incas, but this place was built long before the Incas.

  

What if these thousands of holes connect the desert landscape to the Andes through a complex and still unknown accounting system? Was it the Chincha civilization that created these holes as a kind of marketplace where they traded with other cultures? And why weren't more of these holes made elsewhere? Why did the ancient inhabitants call it Serpent Mountain? And what if it's ultimately a non-human creation? Undoubtedly, there are still many unanswered questions that imbue this place with an aura of mysticism and mystery.

  

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