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adobe pyramids in northern Peru continues to reveal its mysteries

(EFE), Sipan (Peru) .- The adobe pyramids north of Peru continues to reveal its mysteries, with the opening today of the new museum located next to the Sipan site and dedicated to the rich Moche culture.
The Sipan is one of the many adobe pyramids that were built in the desert of northern Peru, and has proven to be one of the most fertile in archaeological finds from that in 1987 discovered the tomb of the Lord of Sipan. EFE / File
La Huaca (1000 km. North of Lima) is one of the many adobe pyramids that were built in the desert of northern Peru, and has proven to be one of the most fruitful on archaeological findings from that in 1987 discovered the tomb of the Lord of Sipan, compared to their status and wealth to that of Tutankhamun.
But political and security reasons, the treasure of the Lord of Sipan was transferred to Lambayeque (about 40 miles away), and the towns near the huaca watched with envy how tourism passed by while looters, dealers Antiques, seemed the only ones interested in the place. Only the record
archaeologists Walter Alva (discoverer of the Lord of Sipan) and Luis Chero, appointed director of the new museum, was to continue the excavations and new remains would appear to be to better understand the rich Moche culture.
The Moche, a village Chero warrior called "victors of the desert", dominated from the second century BC and AD VII coastline of what is now northern Peru, and proved to be skilled builders of pyramids, cool water (made 900 kilometers of channels) and connoisseurs of metallurgy.
For unknown reasons, related in part to the sudden succession of periods of heavy rain and drought, the Moche (also called Mochica) disappeared and were eclipsed by later civilizations, mainly by the brightness of the Incas.
As was apparent in the treasury of the Lord of Sipan the new Sipan Museum opened today shows a complex culture, with various backgrounds and significant expertise in ceramics, textiles and metallurgy.
The museum has been funded by the Italo-Peruvian Fund, with a formula of an exchange of Peru's debt owed to Italy, and his execution has been carried out by Caritas Peru, which in turn has brought running water, drains and training craft to the people of the area.
The jewel of the museum is the Warrior Priest's tomb called the Tomb found in 14, a dignitary Moche killed their forties (average standard at the time) and buried beside his wife, probably poisoned a potion to join him in eternity, and a flame, plus a host of pitchers, masks and various ornaments.
The skeleton of the priest, with all the objects are exhibited in a room lit only by a dim light in which you can also contemplate the complex trappings with which this character was dressed Moche elite.
Walter Alva said today that the abundance and complexity of remains found at Sipan, "which can provide work still to eight generations of archaeologists," the place "among the greatest archaeological discoveries of the twentieth century."
President Alan Garcia in his opening remarks, stressed that the museum puts demonstrates "the continuity (historical) Peru."
"Our history is richer and more complex than what we teach in schools," said the ruler. Huacas
Like all the Rajada is a pyramid (actually two games by a "crack") built from the ground for millions of mud bricks. The impetuous rains in the winters for centuries have wrought language and furrows on the slopes of a hill to make it look eaten away by erosion.

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