Tomb of Sipan near Chiclayo, Peru - More to be posted soon

Dear Blog Readers,

This is not a mountain. No, it is a pyramid. Well, was a pyramid. We looked similar to a pyramid so the guides keep calling it that. There are a lot of these on the coast of Peru and we´ve been doing various tours of them. This one is from around 300 AD. There was a people in the region from 100BC to 700 AD or so. Then they disapeared and another popped in from 700 until 1450 or so. Then The Incans for 100 years before the Spanish. I think that is all about right.

About 20 years ago, an arceologist noticed that a bunch of ancient jewelry was popping up on the black market. So, he asked some questions and figured out some grave robbers had found a bunch of new tombs. He got there before they had depleted the best one, the tomb of Sipan. They have since moved this stuff to museums so these are recreations. Cool recreations.

Those weird flat sharp things are crowns that important people wore. These were important warriors I think.

Lord of Sipan with various concubines and llamas and sons and slaves. Things like that.

Those small mustashe things were nose rings. The shells were food for the God who cuts off people´s heads.
Slave for the afterlife.

Neclace, this one is real, one part happy, one part sad. We went to two museums with the stuff they found. The real small one let us take pictures.

Here is a picture of one of the tombs as they found it. I think it is of the other Lord of Sipan, the first less rich one of which there is no picture posted above. The one above is of the rich one. Those masks are creepy.