Face of pre-Columbian ruler revealed, but is it his first true portrait?
If we now know that this is what the Lord of Sipan looked like, then could he have been the subject of this ancient Moche portrait vessel, as well?
Larco Museum
The beauty of Moche religious art abounds at the Larco Museum
The Moche controlling a dozen fertile river valleys along what is now Peru’s northern Pacific coast from about 300 to 850 C.E. (Common Era).