August
18
/ 2014
In 1987, some of the most extraordinary tombs in the world were found in Sipán’s Huaca Rajada, a Moche archaeological site on the North coast of Peru, which predates the Inca by some 1,000 years. While a whole complex of unplundered burials has now been unearthed, the most famous belongs to El Señor de Sipán (‘The Lord of Sipán’), a Mochican warrior priest who was buried among unfathomable riches. The treasures, along with a wealth of archaeological data about the little known civilization of the Moche, are continually emerging, so much so that two large museums have been especially built to house the ancient relics. The finding is considered to be among the most important archaeological discoveries to have taken
