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Multi-periodSite Name: El Brujo
Country: Peru
NOTE: This site is 185.608 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Trujilio, Peru  Nearest Village: Cartavio
Latitude: 7.915S  Longitude: 79.306W
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El Brujo
El Brujo submitted by dt44 : General view of the site (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Town in La Libertad Province.
Pyramids, Plazas, Farm Fields, Habitations.
This ancient site in the Chicama River Valley date back 5000 years, but was substantially enlarged by the Pre-Inca Moche culture (~100AD to 800AD.) The Mochicas lived along the northern coast of Peru, and are known for their decorative artifacts illustrating warfare and the decapitation of captives.

Excavations have been on-going at the El Brujo (The Wizard) site since the 1940's. The largest features are Huaco Cao Viejo, Huaca Prieta and Huaca El Brujo structures. These stepped pyramids were built in stages, with completed and decorated rooms, covered by newer layers over time.
The excavations of the Huaco Cao Viejo (Huaca Blanca) features polychrome painted stucco and stone carved basreliefs of armored warriors wielding war clubs. Also within the structure was the tomb of the tattoooed ruler or priestess, dubbed Señora de Cao.

Huaca Prieta lies closest to the ocean and bears the mark of the earliest archaeological excavation. The general area is sadly pock marked by years of looting holes.

A museum is on site, featuring the Lady of Cao's mummy and the contents of her tomb. Currently photography is allowed at both the site and the museum, except for the chamber where the Lady of Cao lies.

The central area of buildings and plazas is surrounded by the remains of irrigated farming fields. The colonial village Magdalena de Cao was built amid the El Brujo complex in an attempt to counteract the importance of the Pre-Conquest site. Now the colonial site is also the subject of excavations. (A more recent village, also called Magdalena de Cao, where beautiful modern murals celebrating the ancient site, Moche iconomgraphy, and the Lady of Cao have been painted, is nearby.
A brief article by Dr. Régulo Franco Jordán at go2peru describes the site and provides visitor information.

Note: Pre-Inca Cinnabar Mine may have provided tatoo dye for the 'Lady of Cao' at Peru's El Brujo Archaeological Complex.
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El Brujo submitted by sophs74 : El Brujo, Peru Site in Peru (Vote or comment on this photo)

El Brujo
El Brujo submitted by dt44 : Site in Peru (Vote or comment on this photo)

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El Brujo submitted by dt44 : Museum (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Pre-Inca Cinnabar Mine Discovered in Trujillo by bat400 on Monday, 25 June 2012
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The cinnabar used by the Moche to paint tattoos on their skin some 1,600 years ago may have been mined locally, according to recent findings by archaeologist Regulo Franco.

In 2006, Franco and his archaeology team at the El Brujo site on Peru’s north coast discovered the tomb of the Señora de Cao, a young mother who was obviously a ruler, buried around A.D. 400 in 26 layers of fine cloth and flanked by carved spears and clubs as signs of power. From pots found in the tomb, she is believed to have died after childbirth, possibly from eclampsia.

One of the unique features was that, besides being magnificently decorated in glittering nose rings, crowns and necklaces, her skin was delicately tattooed with drawings of snakes, fish and other figures, which led to her nickname of the Tattooed Lady.

Franco believed the tattoos had been made with cinnabar brought from areas much further south, such as the Andean highlands of Huancavelica.

But his discovery this month of a pre-Inca mine near Trujillo leads him to now believe that the cinnabar or mercury sulfide was obtained locally.

The mine, with malachite crystals and mercury ore and mercury sulfide, is accessible from the western slope of Cerro Portachuelo, within the protected area of Cerro Campana, a hill outside Trujillo considered sacred by the Moche.

For more, see Peruvian Times.
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El Brujo (Lady Cao Tomb) by bat400 on Monday, 29 November 2010
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dt44 provides a corrected location and ratings for El Brujo.

dt44 writes:

In 2004 a grave was discovered at the site of El Brujo.

This is the tomb of the "Lady of Cao".

Scientists believe it led his people (of the Mochicas civilization) to about 300 AD. 200 meters from the mound a museum was built and opened in April 2009.

The museum is not very big but it is very interesting.

The mummy, well preserved, of the "Lady of Cao," is exposed (photos not allowed).
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'Lost' Language Found on Back of 400-Year-Old Letter by bat400 on Wednesday, 01 September 2010
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Submitted by coldrum ---

A team of scientists and linguists has only recently revealed the importance of the words written on the flip side of the letter.
The early 17th-century author had translated Spanish numbers—uno, dos, tres—and Arabic numerals into a mysterious language never seen by modern scholars.
"Even though [the letter] doesn't tell us a whole lot, it does tell us about a language that is very different from anything we've ever known—and it suggests that there may be a lot more out there," said project leader Jeffrey Quilter, an archaeologist at Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.

The newfound native language may have borrowed from Quechua, a language still spoken by indigenous peoples of Peru, Quilter said.
But it was clearly a unique tongue, and likely one of two known only by the mention of their names in contemporary texts: Quingnam and Pescadora—"language of the fishers."

The writings include translated numbers, which means that the lost language's numerical system was a ten-based, or decimal system—like English.

While the Inca used a ten-based system, many other cultures did not: the Maya, for example, used a base of 20, according to Quilter.

The letter was found during excavations of the Magdalena de Cao Viejo church at the El Brujo Archaeological Complex in northern Peru.
The church served a nearby town once inhabited by indigenous people forcibly relocated to the site by Spaniards, probably for purposes of conversion to Christianity, Quilter said.

The tantalizing fragment is just one of hundreds of historic papers recovered at the site, which has been well preserved by the extremely arid climate—and also by the church's collapse, Quilter added.

Finding the new language at Magdalena de Cao Viejo helps to reinforce the rich diversity of cultures found in early colonial Americas, Quilter said.

“We often think of a confrontation of Spanish and Native Americans, but in almost every location, from Massachusetts to Peru, it was a confrontation of a much more diverse group of people."

"it really shows how rich and diverse that world was."

For more, see news.nationalgeographic.com.
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Tatooed Mummy from "The Wizard" in Peru by bat400 on Thursday, 22 March 2007
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Another link on the Moche Mummy, offered by coldrum, this one aimed at younger readers ---

Archaeologists in Peru have discovered a mummy with tattoos of magic religious figures, snakes and spiders. The woman has been described as one of the best-ever preserved mummies from an ancient tribe called the Moche, which died out more than 1,300 years ago.

Experts had thought that only men were leaders in the Moche tribe but the tattoos suggest the woman could have been an important person or warrior. The mummy, thought to date from 450AD, was found with war clubs and jewels.



The mummy was discovered by archaeologists from Peru and the US at a site called El Brujo - meaning The Wizard - on the north coast of the country. El Brujo is thought to be a very sacred area and many people still travel there to perform religious rituals.

BBC News.
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Unique Mummy. Woman Warrior or Powerful Priestess? by bat400 on Tuesday, 14 November 2006
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The El Brujo burial was a surprise because very little of Moche artifacts depicted women in places of power. This woman, who died in her twenties, was buried with warclubs, a golden bowl and jewelry. Warclubs and gold artifacts have previously only assoicated with male burials.
National Geographic feature from June 2006.
The tatooed mummy found at El Brujo was first publizied in June 2006. The story has been repeated recently, perhaps becaude the remains have periodically gone on display.
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