Around two thousand years ago, the Moche people built a society that was probably the first real state structure in the whole of South America. It developed in the narrow strip of almost desert ...

Around two thousand years ago, the Moche people built a society that was probably the first real state structure in the whole of South America. It developed in the narrow strip of almost desert ...

A team of archaeologists working in the Nepeña River valley in western Peru has discovered a royal hall, suggesting that a woman led the pre-Columbian Moche civilisation in the 7th century.