Known as caballitos de totora, or little reed horses, these distinctive vessels have been in use in the region for at least 3,500 years. The same age of those sacrificed, Joel Nicolas Fiestas ...

“The Chimu were a skillful, inventive people,” Matos tells me as we don sterile gloves and peer into the hollowed interiors of the gourds. The Chimu, Matos explains, were the first true ...