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Moche is a Peruvian city, the capital of Moche District in Trujillo Province of La Libertad Region in northern Peru. It is located in the Moche Valley and was the center of development of the ancient Moche or Mochica culture. Now it is a major tourist destination of the Moche Route tourist circuit and It is part of the integrated area of ...
In 1899 and 1900, Max Uhle was the first archaeologist to excavate a Moche site, Huaca de la Luna, which is where the architectural complex that is known as Huacas de Moche (Pyramids of Moche) is located in the Moche Valley. The name of this architectural complex is where the name of the Moche site and culture came from.
Moche portrait vessel, Musée du quai Branly, ca. 100—700 CE, 16 x 29 x 22 cm Moche portrait vessel, ca. 100—500 CE, Worcester Art Museum portrait vessel featuring paralysis, Larco Museum. Moche portrait vessels are ceramic vessels featuring individualized and naturalistic representations of human faces that are unique to the Moche culture ...
Français; Bahasa Indonesia; ... Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Appearance. move to sidebar hide. Moche can refer to: Culture Moche culture; Geography. Moche ...
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk talks to the media during an end of year press conference, at the European headquarters of the United Nation in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday ...
Once a snug home for birds, this fairy turret of a cottage has been lovingly converted into a tiny but airy escape for two, with a bathroom on the first floor and a bedroom tucked up in the eaves.
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Huaca de la Luna ("Temple or Shrine of the Moon") is a large adobe brick structure built mainly by the Moche people of northern Peru. [1] Along with the Huaca del Sol , the Huaca de la Luna is part of Huacas de Moche , which is the remains of an ancient Moche capital city called Cerro Blanco, by the volcanic peak of the same name.