The best-preserved elite burial in Peru reveals the customs of the Moche civilization, including rituals related to human sacrifice as two youths were strangled and laid to rest with their older ...

Archaeologists from the University of California, Santa Cruz unearthed previously unknown proof of human sacrifice rituals in the ancient Moche culture of Peru. They discovered the traces of a ...

Around two thousand years ago, the Moche people built a society that was probably the first real state structure in the whole of South America. It developed in the narrow strip of almost desert ...

Around two thousand years ago, the Moche people built a society that was probably the first real state structure in the whole of South America. It developed in the narrow strip of almost desert ...

People are still excavating there and will be ... So the past of Peru will be its future, and eventually the Moche will become a name just as much as the Maya or the Inca or the Aztec for that ...