[Aztlan] Update on the Lord of Ucupe Tomb

[michael ruggeri]

Listeros,

The National Geographic has an update on the tomb of the Lord of Ucupe  
found last summer. The tomb is of a Moche leader buried between  
340-540 CE and is located 475 miles north of Lima at the base of the  
Huaca el Peublo stepped pyramid. The Lord died in his early thirties.  
His body was covered with a tunic and train of gilded copper plates  
and he had two funerary masks and a necklace of disc shaped silver  
rattles. He had a gilded crown on his head and six more crowns and 10  
diadems on top of his body along with six metal war clubs. He was  
wrapped in a bundle of reed and textiles. He was entombed atop another  
man who had another man beside him who was atop a pregnant woman.  The  
whole burial array is calling into question widely held ideas about  
Moche political organization.

National Geographic has the story here with a slideshow of 10  
excellent photos;
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090410-peru-tomb.html

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