What is it? Funerary Idols. Material. Wood, cinnabar, lime or calcium-based paint, and copper. Culture. Chimú-Inca. Date. 5th-16th centuries A.D.. Found. Samanco ...

Pottery from Chimu culture tombs are seen at the archaeological site in Trujillo, Peru, March 21, 2018. Douglas Juarez/Douglas Juarez. Originating in around 900 C.E., the Chimú civilization ...

The Chimu were a pre-Incan culture that emerged out of the remnants of the Moche culture along the coast of Peru in 900AD. It was the largest pre-Columbian Empire in Peru until the Inca. The Chimu ...

POTTERY FROM ANCON, PERU.—Dr. W. D. Strong has published a further instalment of his valuable studies of the collections of pottery from Peru which were made by Dr. Max Uhle, and are now in the ...

LAMBAYEQUE, PERU—The 600-year-old tomb of a Chimú noblewoman has been uncovered at the Saltur archaeological […] ...