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PARACAS HISTORY MUSEUM

The Paracas History Museum, founded by Juan Navarro, is the only archaeological and human history museum in the immediate area. There was once a Julio Tello Museum in the Paracas Marine Reserve, but it was destroyed by an earthquake 4 years ago. This museum has the finest collection of Paracas, Nazca, Wari, Chincha and Inca artifacts on the south coast of Peru.

The video below gives you a 5 minute tour of the museum:

Beyond the fact that this museum, which is privately owned and has and asks for no government help what so ever, is a fine display of 10,000 years of human habitation in the area of Paracas, it also houses the largest collection of Elongated Human Skulls, in private hands, in the world.

The largest of the skulls have internal cranial capacity of 2000 to 2500 cubic cm., in contrast to the average modern human’s of 1300. This means that these Paracas ancestors may not have been normal humans, but in fact a subspecies, and they may have been the builders of the great megaliths of Tiwanaku, Puma Punku and Cuzco.