The students admire a mummy, in a sitting fetal position, with a gold mask.
In preparation for a two-day field trip to a 4,600-year-old city later this week, today we visited the Larco museum, well-known for its collection of pre-Columbian artifacts. Although everyone has heard of the Incas, in reality their empire only existed for about 100 years before the Spanish arrived; prior to the Incas were several thousands of years of other indigenous civilizations that came and went. We learned about these at the museum, with a helpful timeline of their contemporary cultures in Europe and Asia.
Our guide shows us an ancient pre-Inca burial cloth.The Moche civilization, from 100-800 A.D., produced detailed ceramics.More Moche ceramics. The detail was not replicated in indigenous civilizations that followed.Our guide shows us a 1,000-year-old pre-Incan cloth with a record 398 threads per inch.Incas and previous civilizations used strings with knots to encode numbers and messages.The students admire a mummy, in a sitting fetal position, with a gold mask.The back rooms of the museum have many, many more artifacts.Maria shows what she wants for Christmas. Doug indicates the size of gold earrings he will wear back to Goshen.
