Tumbas reales de Sipán
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Tumbas reales de Sipán
Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA, 1993
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Royal tombs of Sipán
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Royal tombs of Sipán
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Catalog of an exhibition which opened at the Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA and traveled to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; American Museum of Natural History, New York; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit; National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C
Artifacts from Sipán were provided by the Museo Nacional Brüning de Lambayeque, Peru
Bibliography: p. 228
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Description
This text describes the excavation of three royal tombs of the Moche, a civilisation that flourished on the north coast of Peru between AD 100 and 800. The tombs, which contained extraordinary gold and silver jewellery and ceremonial attire, are the richest ever excavated in the Western Hemisphere. The accounts of the tombs and methods of excavation detailed should be useful for scholars, but the authors have made the non-specialist reader their primary audience. The format of the book and its fold-out pages are helpful in relating tomb artefacts to text descriptions. Providing an exemplary view of an ancient culture, the Sipan tombs have had a profound impact on our understanding of Moche civilization.
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