El Brujo

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El Brujo

Bas-relief patterns at Huaca El Brujo
Location  Peru
Nearest city Trujillo (45km.)
Coordinates 7°54′53.92″S 79°18′19.75″W / 7.9149778°S 79.3054861°W / -7.9149778; -79.3054861Coordinates: 7°54′53.92″S 79°18′19.75″W / 7.9149778°S 79.3054861°W / -7.9149778; -79.3054861
Established Mochica era
INC (National Institute of Culture) sign at the El Brujo complex

The El Brujo Archaeological Complex, just north of Trujillo, La Libertad Province, Peru, is an ancient monument of the Moche culture. It includes Huaca Prieta (from preceramic times and later extended by the Cupisnique culture) and the nearby colonial remains of Salinar, Moche, Lambayeque, Chimú.

Huaca El Brujo (or Cortada/Partida) and Huaca Cao Viejo (or Huaca Blanca) were built by the Moche sometime between AD 1 and 600. Huaca Cao Viejo is famous for its polychrome reliefs and mural paintings, and the discovery of the Señora de Cao, the first known Governess in Peru. Both appeared in National Geographic magazine in July 2004 and June 2006. The site officially opened to the public in May 2006 and a museum exhibition was proposed for 2007.

A 17th-century letter found during excavations at the site may contain translations of numbers written in Quingnam or Pescadora using the decimal system, the first physical evidence for existence of either of these languages (if they are not different names for the same language).[1] Archaeologists believe that the language was influenced by Quechua, an ancient tongue still spoken by millions of people across the Andes.[2]

Naked prisoners being led by warrior at El Brujo in El Brujo complex

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References

  1. ↑ "Traces of a Lost Language Discovered". Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University. August 23, 2010. 
  2. ↑ "Lost language discovered on back of letter". London: The Daily Telegraph, UK. September 23, 2010. Retrieved September 24, 2010. 

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