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This time we will not turn to old paintings or stone evidence of the medieval world, on which some miraculously captured modern smartphones, for example, in the picture Italian painter Umberto Romano, where in the hands of an Indian spotted a mobile gadget.
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It turns out that the highly developed kingdom of Chimor with its amazing the capital city of Chan Chan, which existed on the territory of modern South America until 1470 (before the Incas conquered it), knew many devices commensurate with modern ones, including telephone. According to scientists, the intercom was invented here back at the end of the first millennium, when the largest and most blooming the city of ancient South America occupied 20 square kilometers and totaled up to 100 thousand inhabitants. This city of the sun (the word “chan” in translated means “sun”) was distinguished by amazing architecture, sculpture, used a unique hydraulic irrigation system, great metal products and much more that it seems to us today some kind of fantasy.
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The telephone of that time was, of course, wired, and the most primitive from our point of view, like the one in the 19th century called the intercom lovers, and the kids still in full played by him in the last century (two empty matchboxes and tensioned thread between them).
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Among the Chimu peoples, the phone consisted of two gourds (pumpkin variety), connected by a cord. According to one of the researchers of this civilization anthropologist and archaeologist Dr. Matos, phone at that time was not so much an intercom as it served as a magical tool. It could be shown to ordinary people as something divine (for example, a king, could appeal to a crowd of commoners, being invisible), belonging only to kings and priests, however he could serve for negotiations between dignitaries.
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The world’s first phone at one time found on the ruins of the city Chan Chan the Prussian Baron Walram von Schöler, adventurer and fanatic of archeology. He participated in dozens of archaeological excavations in Peru and other parts of South America in the thirties last century. His collection of artifacts found on the territory of the ancient kingdom of Chimor, this aristocrat distributed among many museums. The ancient telephone went to the National Museum of the Indians, located in Maryland. It is still stored there – as one of the greatest treasures …
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