Saturday 26 November 2011

Indian Jones eat your heart out

This museum is full of artifacts that were taken from nearby Sipan. When an archeologist realized that the sudden flux in artifacts arriving in Lima was due to tomb raiders, he took quick action and protected; finding a trove of archeological goodness.


Inside: bones! Gold! Gold in the shape of armor, owls, faces, peanuts (silver ones too) special plates that go over your teeth (because as royalty/gods you can't have something as human as teeth, so you hide them with gold hanging from your nose, or maybe ears?), ducks, spiders, crowns, more faces...beaded collars, clay vases in the shape of people...



No photos inside though. Outside was a garden with traditional crops (corn, quinoa, peanuts, peppers, sweet potatoes, Gourds) yum!

-These glorious things belong in a museum! Where they are.

Location:Lambayaque

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