'Lord of Huarmey' tomb also unearthed.
Archaeologists excavating a necropolis north of Lima have unearthed a 1,300-year-old ornate tomb from the Wari era of Peru. The tomb contains the remains of a high-status man dubbed the"Lord of Huarmey."
"We could call this part of the royal necropolis 'The Gallery of Elite Craftsmen,'" Miłosz Giersz, an archaeologist at the University of Warsaw in Poland who leads the project, told Live Science in an email."For the first time, we have found the burials of male Wari elite, who were also fine craftsmen and artists.
The Wari Empire existed at roughly the same time as the Tiwanaku Empire farther south, and the two Andean states were often rivals, according to a 2003 article by archaeologists at Chicago's Field Museum . But both the Wari and the Tiwanaku empires had collapsed by the time the Inca Empire arose in much the same regions after about A.D. 1200.
The subsequent excavation of the tomb of the Wari queens revealed that Castillo de Huarmey had once been"a large Wari mausoleum and site of ancestor worship on the Peruvian North Coast, an area that lies on the borders of the world controlled by the first Andean empire," Giersz said. As well as an elite necropolis, the finds show that Castillo de Huarmey was an important administrative center of the Wari Empire, he said:"A place of production of the finest handicrafts in the domain, especially exclusive clothing... metal ornaments, and jewelry."
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