The Moche Civilisation lived on the Northern coast of what is now Peru between 50 AD and 700 AD. The name comes from a site in a valley of the same name which was the central city for the Moche ...

"The Moche were not just eating maize, beans and squash -- and manioc and chili peppers -- with their seafood and fish," he tells me, "but also potato, and probably a lot of it." ...

Two chambers discovered in Peru may reveal new insights about the political rituals of the ancient Moche civilization, which ruled on the country's desert coast around 1,500 years ago.

Along the north coast of Peru, the Moche people lived from around 200-800 AD. Since little is known about the kinds of food they ate, two archaeologists analyzed micro-fossils in the dental plaque ...

Pañamarca is one of the southernmost monumental sites of the Moche culture, a civilization that flourished between 350 and 850 AD in the coastal valleys of northern Peru. This culture is famous for ...

Moche ranged in height from 4 feet 10 inches to 5 feet 6 inches, at most. All the deceased were between 5 feet 9 inches and 6 feet tall--the equivalent of 7-footers in today’s society.

Archeologists at a Moche site in northwestern Peru have found the throne room of a female ruler, an unprecedented discovery. The Moche civilization thrived in northern Peru from the 1st to the 8th ...

"Sex, death and sacrifice in the Moche religion," which opened this week and runs until May 23, brings to Europe for the first time 134 erotic Moche ceramics on loan from the Larco Museum in Lima ...

The latest show at Paris' Quai Branly museum comes with a warning for visitors: "This exhibition of Moche ceramics shows sexual acts of an explicit nature." But the extraordinary and graphic ...

While Moche art typically depict deities with supernatural elements such as fangs or wings, said Lisa Trever, a professor of Pre-Columbian art history and archaeology at Columbia University, ...