Seventy years on from its discovery, the Moche site of Pañamarca in northwestern Peru continues to surprise archaeologists. Excavations at the 1,600-year-old settlement picked up pace in 2018 with the ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a richly decorated throne room and a “Hall of the Braided Serpents” from the Moche culture, with clues that a woman may have ruled there more than 1,300 years ago. By ...

Along the north coast of Peru, the Moche people lived from around 200-800 AD. Since little is known about the kinds of food they ate, two archaeologists analyzed micro-fossils in the dental plaque of ...

Archaeologists have analyzed textiles from the ancient city of Huacas de Moche, Peru, showing how the population's cultural traditions survived in the face of external influence. After the Inca, the ...

After a four-year search that enlisted the help of 10 students and a local shaman, Swiss archeologist Sâm Ghavami has rediscovered a 100-foot-long pre-Hispanic mural in northern Peru. Dating back ...

When archaeologists unearthed a large chamber tomb in San José de Moro, a ceremonial center of pre-Columbian Moche civilization on the northern coast of Peru, they found the remains of a woman who had ...

Papers originally presented at the Fourth D.J. Sibley Family Conference held at the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin in November 2003. Contents Iconography meets ...

Libby Purves meets actor Brian Cox and singer June Tabor. Coming up at: 21:58 Weather View full schedule Moche warrior pot (made between 100 and 700 AD), from Peru So far this week, we've been in ...

Foreword / Joanne Pillsbury -- Many Moche models : an overview of past and current theories and research on Moche political organization / Luis Jaime Castillo B. and Jeffrey Quilter -- Maya political ...

Graves containing the gruesome remains of four members of a mysterious civilisation - including a mum and child - which ruled part of a country for 600 years have been unearthed. Archaeologists also ...