“Picture Worlds: Greek, Maya, and Moche Pottery,” at the Michael C. Carlos Museum through Dec. 15, is a visually handsome work of meticulous scholarship that attempts to bridge some of the greatest ...

Cusco, Peru — In 1923, Rafael Larco Hoyle came home to Peru after nine years studying in the U.S. His father gave him a present: a 1,000-year-old piece of pottery, a startlingly realistic portrait ...

Dezeen Showroom: Talk Carpet has unveiled its latest flooring design called Moche Artisan Carpet, which references Peruvian pottery from the ancient Moche civilisation. The conception of the Moche ...

For about 700 years, between 100 and 800 AD, the Moche civilization flourished along the coast of what is now Northern Peru. The precise details of their political structure, religious followings, and ...

The Moche Civilisation lived on the Northern coast of what is now Peru between 50 AD and 700 AD. The name comes from a site in a valley of the same name which was the central city for the Moche people ...

Northwestern University anthropologist Mary Weismantel, who's studied the Moche extensively, suggests that the pots were intended to portray reproductive processes, as they all seem to emphasize the ...

MOCHE, Peru—One Sunday afternoon this month, Edson Padilla’s family was visiting this country’s archaeologically rich northern coast and stopped at the latest attraction—a 9-foot-tall statue of an ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. There's a sordid past in the dirt beneath our feet, in this ground littered with shards of pottery and the white flash of decaying human ...

Two thousand years ago, a mysterious and little known civilisation ruled the northern coast of Peru. Its people were called the Moche. This week's Horizon tells the story of the rise and fall of a pre ...