Tomb shows Peru's Moche were Christ's contemporaries

[Judi Lynn]

Tomb shows Peru's Moche were Christ's contemporaries
Irish Sun
Tuesday 27th October, 2009
(IANS)

A tomb at the Sipan archaeological site in northern Peru confirms that the ancient Moche people were contemporaries of Christ, scientists say.

Luis Chero, the head of the Huaca Rajada Sipan Archaeological Complex, told EFE Monday that tombs are often found there that date back to the third century, but this burial confirms that the Moche or Mochica civilisation existed before that.

'Now with this tomb we have evidence of the early Moche, of their origins, which is to say from approximately 100 BC,' he said.

The discovery of a young warrior's tomb was presented to the press two months ago, but the new studies at the place it was found have brought further information to light as to its antiquity and also the age of the warrior, though other studies must be done to corroborate the findings.

Chero added that the analysis carried out last month by physical anthropologist Luis Millones in the grave some 12 metres underground show that this nobleman, who apparently performed 'priestly and military functions', was 21 years old when he died.

'The causes of death are currently in the process of analysis. He was quite young, he was 21, while the other people found in Sipan had an average age of 40,' Chero said.


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Lambayeque Province, Peru

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An older article you might find worthwhile:

Monday, November 12, 2007
Lambayeque Valley, Peru: Discovery of 4,000 Year-Old Fire Temple With Murals

Ancient Peru has just yielded up yet another secret from her past, with this discovery of a unique clay-brick temple at the site of Ventarron, in northern Peru, and dating from long before this type of complexity is normally found there. This from Yahoo! News...

The temple, inside a larger ruin, includes a staircase that leads up to an altar used for fire worship at a site scientists have called Ventarron, said Peruvian archaeologist Walter Alva, who led the dig.

It sits in the Lambayeque valley, near the ancient Sipan complex that Alva unearthed in the 1980s. Ventarron was built long before Sipan, about 2,000 years before Christ, he said.

"It's a temple that is about 4,000 years old," Alva, director of the Museum Tumbas Reales (Royal Tombs) of Sipan, told Reuters by telephone after announcing the results of carbon dating at a ceremony north of Lima sponsored by Peru's government.

"What's surprising are the construction methods, the architectural design and most of all the existence of murals that could be the oldest in the Americas," he said.

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