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Royal tombs of Sipán

Walter Alva, Christopher B. Donnan

Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, 1994

2nd ed

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Exhibition venues: Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, American Museum of Natural History, New York and others

Includes bibliographical references (p. 228)

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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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