Archeologists have rediscovered a pre-Hispanic fresco depicting mythological scenes in northern Peru that they had only seen in black and white photographs that were more than a century old.
"It's an exceptional discovery, first of all, because it is rare to unearth wall paintings of such quality in pre-Columbian archeology," said Sam Ghavami, the Swiss archeologist who led excavations that uncovered the mural in October.
"The composition of this painting is unique in the history of mural art in pre-Hispanic Peru," added the archaeologist, who trained at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. The discovery is also unusual in that it shows a mixture of styles and elements of two pre-Incan cultures: the Moche and the Lambayeque, who lived on Peru's north coast between 900 and 1350 CE.The mural's existence was only known via black and white photos taken in 1916 by the German ethnologist Hans Heinrich Bruning, who lived in Peru for many years.
As the years went on, thick foliage took over. The fresco piqued Ghavami's interest as he worked on his doctoral thesis on cultural transitions such as that between the Moche and Lambayeque civilizations.
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