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Book Extract – The Museum of the Royal Tombs of Sipan, Chiclayo, Peru

Built across three floors, the Museum of the Royal Tombs of Sipan is a stand out feature against the small, somewhat dated buildings squatting in the backdrop. Shaped like a pyramid with a huge red slope leading to the entrance, it has a distinctive golden design of the Ai Apaec symbol, the Moche creator God, on the front wall.

Moche ceramics, peru
Some scholars say these spiral patterns are “geometric waves”

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