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Metal Detecting Finds in Peru

1 published discovery in the Artefacts category from Peru — coins, hoards, jewellery and artefacts recovered by detectorists and archaeologists.

Artefacts from Peru

1 find

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Famous findMoche, about AD 250 · found 1987

The Lord of Sipán: the royal tomb that looters missed

Peru · ArtefactsRef 201

In 1987 looters digging into an adobe pyramid in northern Peru found a tomb full of gold and quarrelled over the spoils. The police were tipped off, and the archaeologist Walter Alva went on to find an untouched royal tomb nearby: the Lord of Sipán, buried around AD 250.