On the northern coast of Peru, archaeologists discovered a throne room that may have belonged to an ancient queen of the Moche culture about 1,300 years ago. The Moche were an Indigenous ...

Pañamarca is the southernmost monumental center of the Moche culture, a pre-Hispanic society that inhabited the coastal valleys of northern Peru between around A.D. 350 and A.D. 850.

Adobe bricks, or mud bricks, are construction elements which have defined major architectural traditions in the Andes over thousands of years. From Moche pyramids and the ancient city of Chan Chan in ...

Archaeologists in Peru have unearthed the throne room of a powerful queen from the Moche culture, and detailed murals of the female ruler decorate its walls. When you purchase through links on our ...

Peru’s ‘Moche Route’: Mummies, pyramids, an adobe city and a stop in Trujillo Tour the ruins of Moche and Chimú civilization, with a visit to the pre-Incan citadel of Chan Chan, the tomb of the Lady ...

A newly excavated figure (left) and a watercolor of the figure (right) at Pañamarca show one of a pair of supernatural combatants. The second figure is likely hidden behind the adobe bricks ...

But this eroded adobe outcrop - the Huaca Rajada, or literally "cracked pyramid" - has yielded a treasure trove that rivals that of King Tutankhamun's tomb. It was here, under an avalanche of gold and ...

The ruins of an entire city have been found in northern Peru, which could answer questions about what happened to the ancient Moche culture - best known for conducting human sacrifices.

Thriving along Peru 's arid northern coast from about A.D. 100 to 800, the Moche culture was composed of independently governed agricultural societies. These groups shared a common religion and a ...