The Moche culture of ancient Peru is noted for elaborately decorated ceramics, goldwork, textiles, and murals—and people. While actual physical evidence of tattooing is rare, ...

After the Inca, the Moche culture is one of the best-known archaeological cultures of the Andes. It is famed for its colorful temple complexes, the biggest of which, Huacas del Sol in Huacas de ...

A recent genetic study has uncovered unprecedented human sacrifice rituals in the ancient Moche culture of Peru, revealing that adolescents were sacrificed to their close relatives during funerals ...

The Moche civilization is well known for massive ritual structures like the pyramidal Huaca del Sol and Huaca de la Luna, as well as for their extensively varied ceramic tradition that includes ...

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.

Archaeologists have unearthed a richly decorated throne room and a “Hall of the Braided Serpents” from the Moche culture, with clues that a woman may have ruled there more than 1,300 years ago.

Both an anthropologist and an archaeologist, he says its only possible to understand such a long-gone culture because "I eat the Moche, I sleep the Moche, I talk to the Moche." ...

Experts believe Pañamarca was constructed between 550-800 C.E., during the Moche civilization in Peru. The Moche, also known as the Mochica, flourished on the northern coast of Peru between the ...