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Article: `Peruvian King Tut's' tomb yields treasures
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- September 14, 1988
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WASHINGTON The richest treasury of archeological artifacts ever
found in the Americas has been recovered from the 1,500-year-old tomb
of the warrior-leader of a civilization that once dominated Peru, the
National Geographic Society announced Tuesday.
Archeologists credited grave looters with leading them to the
gold-laden tomb of the leader of the Moche people, a priest whom they
called "a Peruvian King Tut."
Representing only a fraction of the riches found in the grave
are a 2-foot-wide headdress, a warrior's golden backflap weighing
nearly 2 pounds, a ceremonial rattle made of hammered sheet gold,
turquoise ear ornaments and a string of gold bells depicting a god
lopping off human ...