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Some sculptures have staff, shields and others a decapitated head that would show the importance of the region .
About 20 sculptures of anthropomorphic idols and a decorated adobe wall were discovered on the archaeological site of Chan Chan in northern Peru, buried 800 years ago in the largest mud town in America, Monday, the government.
The discovery, which is the oldest evidence of idols found at Chan Chan, was presented by the Minister of Culture, Patricia Balbuena, in the coastal region of La Libertad, located about 560 km north of Lima .
"We found the entrance to an important ceremonial center inside the Chan Chan Citadel (…) and we found wooden idols bearing entrance clay masks and welcome to everyone who enters this center ", Balbuena told reporters on the site.
Some sculptures have a staff, shields and others a decapitated head that would show the importance of the area. "These are guards who accompany this center" he said. The wall features drawings of waves, spirals and gangs, he added.
The statues, about 19 in good condition, were inside a rectangular hollowed out and aligned at the base of a wall in a hallway decorated with high-rise drawings. relief.
About 70 centimeters tall on average, these figures were made during a culture prior to Chan Chan, some 1,100 years after Christ, said the minister. The public will be able to see the exhibition only in 2020, he added.
Peru is home to dozens of ancient archaeological sites and where the Inca empire developed about 500 years ago, which dominated a territory located to the south of the continent. , southern Ecuador and Colombia in central Chile.
Photos: AFP
