The ancient Peruvian people burned beer stalls after the party

About 1,000 years ago in Peru, after drinking the pepper corn beer, the old nobles lit fire to the brewery and threw cups into the fire.

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Mountain by Cerro Baúl

This activity was not considered a vandalism, but a religious ritual that took place before the Wari people left the sacred city on the summit by Cerro Baúl. The ruins lie intact for a millennium until researchers at the University of Florida in the US discover and use the remaining clues to find the story.

The Wari people were predecessors of the Incas and built the city around 600 in Cerro Baúl - a 600 m high mountain in the Moquegua river valley. A population of more than 1,000 people lived in the Wari Dynasty, adjacent to Tiwanaku. The farmer lived in the valley, in the middle of a complex system of canals, but the aristocracy lived on the top of a flat mountain.

" The peak is an impractical place to live, " said lead researcher Michael Moseley. People must transport food, water and other supplies through a stone-paved road from the valley. He believed that the Wari people chose this place for political purposes to impress the Tiwanaku - the city closest to them, only 8 km away and consist of more than 10,000 people.

The Wari people abandoned the Cerro Baúl and all other cultural relics in 1000. Why they left was still a mystery, but they left evidence of a planned departure. They cleaned up functional buildings, but destroyed ritual works, such as palaces, temples and breweries.

The last rituals, like a party at the palace, end with burning the flammable parts of the building. Later, the stone walls collapsed, covered up and protected the monument for thousands of years.

The brewery has become the most remarkable evidence. The shawl clamps found in the rubble show that the nobles were beer brewers. In the Inca period, noble women were called " virgins of the sun " and were also involved in making beer.

In Cerro Baúl, the brewers brewed young corn kernels, cooked them in a ceramic jar and put it in a 150 liter jar to ferment for a week. The brewery can make 1,800 liters of beer each time. Peruvian people still drink the same beer, called chicha.

Beer jars for dignitaries.

The last batch of beer has pepper flavor, a kind of chicha exclusively for aristocracy. The remaining number of beer shows that there are 28 leaders participating in the beer yard, each with a separate beer. Those with lower status drink beer pints 0.4 liters, but the top 4 leaders have pints of beer decorated with 1.9 liter pattern.

After partying passionately, the building was fired, the beer stacks were thrown into the fire. As the coal pile cools down, the necklaces and bracelets were placed on the ashes.

There are still many mysteries that need to be decoded. The burial sites are still not found in Cerro Baúl, although more than 1,000 people have lived here for 400 years.

MT ( by Newscientist )