Peru’s moss-choked cloud forest in Upper Amazon, darker in real life than in this photograph, is as silent as it is
mysterious. Nothing moved there as I looked for moss-covered and overgrown
pre-Inca Chachapoya stone ruins, now as green as their surroundings and nearly
invisible. Not a twig snapped. Not a bird sang. Not a snake slithered away. Not
an insect peeked from under a dead leaf.
The ancient Chachapoya there had rested
untouched for many centuries. But settlers had discovered their ancient village
and they would soon go treasure hunting before archaeologists could find support
for their own digging.
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