Wrinkle Face Battles Crab Deity! Fox-Head Fish Fights Sea Anemone! The curved clay surfaces of Moche vessels from ancient Peru are sites of extraordinary imaginative activity, rendered in linear ...

and large niches held offerings of ceramic vessels. Two adults, presumably sacrificed female attendants, were buried with her along with five children. (See video of a Moche tomb.) Her skeleton ...

The Manhattan District Attorney's Office returned eight artifacts to Peru during a ceremony at the Peruvian consulate in New ...

JEQUETEPEQUE VALLEY, PERU—The eighth tomb of a series of powerful Moche priestess-queens has ... of the tomb had been painted red, and ceramic vessels had been placed in its niches.

The Moche civilization is well known for massive ritual structures like the pyramidal Huaca del Sol and Huaca de la Luna, as well as for their extensively varied ceramic tradition that includes ...

The sculptures created by the Moche culture that thrived in northern ... expressed through these ceramic vessels that we call the Erotic Huacos," said Larco Museum Director Ulla Holmquist.

Peru is socially conservative, especially when it comes to sex. It was, after all, the former seat of the Spanish empire in South America, which punished sodomy, masturbation and sex outside ...

The Virú burials also feature a variety of grave goods, including ceramic vessels decorated with human ... Prieto uncovered a 1,500-year old Moche ceremonial platform at the site of Pampa La ...