“Picture Worlds: Greek, Maya, and Moche Pottery,” at the Michael C. Carlos Museum through Dec. 15, is a visually handsome work of meticulous scholarship that attempts to bridge some of the greatest ...

LIMA, Peru — Historian Maximo Terrazos descended narrow stairs into a tomb-like chamber where he says he experienced a sexual awakening of sorts nearly 40 years ago. Then a 20-year-old university ...

For about 700 years, between 100 and 800 AD, the Moche civilization flourished along the coast of what is now Northern Peru. The precise details of their political structure, religious followings, and ...

Dezeen Showroom: Talk Carpet has unveiled its latest flooring design called Moche Artisan Carpet, which references Peruvian pottery from the ancient Moche civilisation. The conception of the Moche ...

Northwestern University anthropologist Mary Weismantel, who's studied the Moche extensively, suggests that the pots were intended to portray reproductive processes, as they all seem to emphasize the ...

MOCHE, Peru—One Sunday afternoon this month, Edson Padilla’s family was visiting this country’s archaeologically rich northern coast and stopped at the latest attraction—a 9-foot-tall statue of an ...

Two thousand years ago, a mysterious and little known civilisation ruled the northern coast of Peru. Its people were called the Moche. This week's Horizon tells the story of the rise and fall of a pre ...

Libby Purves meets actor Brian Cox and singer June Tabor. Coming up at: 21:58 Weather View full schedule Moche warrior pot (made between 100 and 700 AD), from Peru So far this week, we've been in ...

One of nine shark burials that have been unearthed at the ancient Peruvian site of Pampa la Cruz.(Courtesy Gabriel Prieto) Exploring the beliefs of complex cultures that flourished before the advent ...