Archaeologists in Peru have discovered a 1,300-year-old throne room painted with murals depicting a female Moche ruler, although they have yet to find the queen's skeletal remains. This throne ...

The best-preserved elite burial in Peru reveals the customs of the Moche civilization, including rituals related to human sacrifice as two youths were strangled and laid to rest with their older ...

This pot was made in Peru by the Moche. It shows a kneeling Moche warrior holding a club in one hand and a shield in the other. Warfare, warriors and prisoners are a recurring theme in Moche art.

a team of researchers analyzed a number of previously discovered burials associated with the pre-Hispanic Moche archaeological culture, which flourished along the north coast of what is now Peru ...

What we have here in fact is a pottery representation of the Moche universe, and I want to choose one of these pots to take us further into that world of Peru 1,300 years ago. He's a kneeling ...

Moche culture thrived along Peru's North Coast between the 4th and 10th centuries CE, constructing monumental adobe temples (huacas) and complex irrigation networks. Previous archaeological work ...

550 pp. Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles Lisa Trever, “A Moche Riddle in Clay: Object Knowledge and Art Work in Ancient Peru,” The Art Bulletin 101, no. 4 (2019): 18–38. 2021 Article Award, Association ...

Among the many ancient cultures that produced painted pottery, the Greeks in the Mediterranean, the Maya in Central America, and the Moche of northern Peru stand out for their terracotta vessels ...

In this lecture, an investigation of masquerade among the Moche of the North Coast of Peru (AD 200-800) reveals that masks acted as animated persons that extended and distributed the life-force (camay ...