Open the tomb of the priestess in pre-Hispanic Peru (the eighth in the last two decades of archaeological work), according to archaeologists, once again confirms that 1200 years ago this region was ruled influential women.
This is not the first record in the region, struck the scientists. In 2006, archaeologists discovered the famous Lady of Cao who died about 1,700 years ago - one of the first female governors of Peru.
This discovery proves that women were not only in Peru Servants of worship and ritual performer, - says head of research Luis Jaime Castillo (Luis Jaime Castillo). - They ruled there were queens and Mochica society. This is the eighth woman, found here. Our excavations have never led us to the graves of men.
The priestess was buried in startling imagination 1,200 years, the burial chamber, which is also indicated by the fact that the media culture of the urine were skilled craftsmen. The tomb is made in the L-shaped form made of clay and covered with red and yellow figures and copper plates in the form of waves and sea birds. Near the neck priestesses were found mask and a knife. Also found in the tomb offerings (mostly small ceramic vases), hidden in the recesses of ten close to the body.
In the next world priestess escorted five children, among them babies and teenagers - said Castillo. - All of them have been sacrificed.
Julio Saldana (Julio Saldana), the archaeologist in charge of the work in the burial chamber, said that the finding suggests that near the village of San José de Moro is a cemetery of the ancient Moche civilization of the elite, in which the main role once played by women.
