Hi all. I´m in Piura until tomorrow morning, then off to Ecuador. Spent a couple of days in Chiclayo, saw some adobe pyramids from the time of Christ and what was excavated from the tombs. This site was found and began the excavation in 1987 so the museums that house the finds are pretty great. The sites themselves look like big dirt mounds but apparently there were some local people stumbled upon these ruins, plundered the graves, sold the findings and an archealogist figured out where the sites were. The crazy thing is the first layer (lowest layer) of the pyramid belonged to Lord Sipan who lived around the time of Christ. When he died, they buried him along with any wives, children, concubines, servants, guards, a dog and a llama (ALL were sacrificed) to keep
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