A Wari Matriarchy?

Top 10 Discoveries of 2013 January/February 2014

Castillo de Huarmey, Peru
(Courtesy Patrycja Przadka Giersz)
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Within an unlooted tomb of the Wari civilization, a pre-Inca culture of Peru, archaeologists found the remains of several of the empire’s queens, accompanied by lavish offerings such as a cup that had been carved out of alabaster and a 1,200-year-old decorated ceramic flask.(Courtesy Patrycja Przadka Giersz)

At the center of Castillo de Huarmey in northern Peru is a burial complex where Milosz Giersz and a team of archaeologists from the University of Warsaw and the Pontifical Catholic Univ

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