Last July, squatters using a heavy digger knocked down adobe walls at the 5,000-year-old ruins of Caral, Peru, and tore up the ground destroying ancient ceramics, tombs containing mummies, textiles and household remains, before police and the site’s staff were able to stop them.

First published in the January 04, 2021, 6:08 a.m. edition

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