A Peruvian Woman Warrior of A.D. 450 - New York Times: "Military gear found with a mummified Peruvian woman suggests that she was a chieftain of the Moche (pronounced MOH-chay) people. She was a woman who died some 1,600 years ago in the heyday of the Moche culture, well before the rise of the Incas. Her imposing tomb suggests someone of high status.
The Moche culture flourished in the coastal valleys of northern Peru in the first 700 years A.D. The people were master artisans and built huge adobe pyramids. The woman's tomb was near the summit of a pyramid called Huaca Cao Viejo, a cathedral of the Moche religion."
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
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