Artifacts Sipan Peru
Opened in 2002 as the name suggests it is dedicated to the royal tombs found at sipan.
Artifacts sipan peru. However many artifacts remain on display at the impressive lord sipans museum a short drive outside of the city chiclayo. The museum in a way is a meta museum exploring how archaeologists discovered the burial ground of the lord of sipan. The editor nadia durrani went to peru to discover the latest.
In 1987 an enormous complex of unplundered moche culture tombs was unearthed at the huaca rajada archaeological site near sipan on the north coast of peru. The most intriguing and exciting discovery was a tomb which housed a wooden coffin containing a skeleton. El senor de sipan original artifacts in the royal tombs of sipan museum lambayeque peru scientific analysis of the skeleton of the lord of sipan show that he was approximately 163 meters tall and was about 3545 years old at the time of his death.
To this day the site continues to yield great wonders. It is named for julio c. One of the best known artifacts from this site the tello obelisk is on display at the national museum of archaeology and history in lima.
In 1987 a series of burial sites were unearthed near sipan on perus north coast. The moche culture which dominated northern coastal peru from 100 to 700 ad is one of these impressive ancient civilizations. Lord of sipan original artifacts in the royal tombs of sipan museum lambayeque peru huaca rajada also known as sipan is a moche archaeological site in northern peru in the lambayeque valley that is famous for the tomb of lord of sipan el senor de sipan excavated by walter alva and his wife susana meneses beginning in 1987.
They were left by the people of the moche culture who preceded the inca by some 1000 years. The unique architecture of the royal tombs of sipan museum. In 1987 some of the worlds richest and most extraordinary tombs were found on the north coast of peru.
El senor de sipan the lord of sipan is a fully intact tomb of a moche king considered one of the most important archaeological finds of the past several decades. The most famous of the tombs belonged to el senor de sipan the lord of sipan a mochican warrior priest who was buried among dazzling treasures unlike any seen before in the region.