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Pictures from a new exhibition show that ancient Egypt didn't have a monopoly on the elaborate preservation of the dead

The Inca were preceded by the great megalithic builders thousands of years before who mastered stone technology we cannot explain today

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Prehispanic gold spider from Lembayaque,Peru

Unlike their northern counterparts, who used two-piece ceramic molds for manufacturing vessels, Nazca potters shaped containers by coiling and modeling. Figure vessels like the present example are rare and have an early date in the Nazca ceramic sequence, which lasted for at least 700 years

. Effigy vessel Artist Unknown (Nazca) (Peru, South America), 100 B.C.-A.D. 600

There were 8 sarcophagi originally, but two were destroyed by natural causes. Luckily, because of the remote location of these six sarcophagi have stayed relatively intact.

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Photos taken from “The Curse of Gold – 1000 Years of Inca Gold” exhibit by Karelj. The artifacts date from 400 B.C. to 1500 A.D. Courtesy the Peru Gold Museum -Museo Oro del Perú, Lima.