# Cieza de León 1864: The Travels of Pedro de Cieza de León, A.D. 1532–50, contained in the first part of his Chronicle of Peru

> Pedro de Cieza de León, Clements R. (translator) Markham, 1864. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The earliest European description of the ruins…

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# The Travels of Pedro de Cieza de León, A.D. 1532–50, contained in the first part of his Chronicle of Peru

Pedro de Cieza de León, Clements R. (translator) Markham, 1864. _Hakluyt Society, London_.

Markham's English translation of the Parte primera de la chronica del Peru (Seville, 1553). Chapter 105 describes the edifices of Tiahuanaco as he saw them, their monolithic doorways and huge stones, and states that they were never completed and were begun before the Incas.

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The earliest European description of the ruins and the first record that the buildings were unfinished.

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Cieza de León, P. d., & Markham, C. R. (. (1864). The Travels of Pedro de Cieza de León, A.D. 1532–50, contained in the first part of his Chronicle of Peru. Hakluyt Society, London. https://archive.org/details/travelsofpedrode33ciez
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