Lord of Sipán

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Tomb of the Lord of Sipán The artifacts are reproductions of the original artifacts found in the tomb and are now on display in the local museum

The Lord of Sipán (El Señor de Sipán) is a mummy found in Sipán by Peruvian archaeologist Walter Alva in the 1987. The tomb is in Sipán's Huaca Rajada, an area in Chiclayo.

The Señor de Sipán tomb is a Moche culture site in Peru. Some archaeologists hold it to be one of the most important archaeological discoveries in this region of the world in the last 30 years, because the main tomb was found intact and untouched by thieves.

Sipán is located in the northern part of Peru, close to the coast, in the middle of Lambayeque Valley, 35 km east of Chiclayo. Four tombs have been found in Sipán's Huaca Rajada, the huaca is a mausoleum built by the Moche culture that ruled the northern coast of Peru from around 1 AD to 700 AD, centuries prior to the Incas.

[edit] External links

• Lord of Sipan tomb information
• Article about the repatriation of looted Sipán jewelry (1996).
• National Geographic, " Looted Peru Headdress Recovered in London" 18 August 2006

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