detail, top: excavated Neolithic room with the skull of elderly man set beneath the floor in the corner bottom: Neolithic plastered skull in situ as found
Royal mask, Peru, Moche culture, phase II, ca. 300-400 AD.
This royal mask is among the most spectacular relics from the Moche culture of pre-Columbian Peru. Between the first and eighth century, the Moche created an oasis ...