It just was opened in the department of La Libertad, the museum that will showcase the Lady of Cao, the first female ruler of the Mochica culture discovered so far in the north the country and buried 1,700 years ago.
Cao Museum opened its doors near the El Brujo (The Wizard) Archaeological Complex, located an hour from the city of Trujillo, in the district of Magdalena de Cao, Ascope province. In addition to the tattooed mummy of El Brujo complex, the museum exhibits weavings and ceramics from the Mochica culture, some of which date back 5,000 years.
The female mummy, baptized the Lady of Cao, is one of the best-ever relics of a civilization that ended more than 1,300 years ago. The mummy was accompanied by ceremonial items including jewelry and weapons, and the remains of a teenage girl who had been sacrificed.
The tomb lay near the top of a crumbling pyramid called Huaca Cao Viejo, a ruin near the town of Trujillo that has been well known since colonial times. The culture of the Moche, who constructed the largest adobe pyramid in the Americas, the Moche Sun Pyramid, developed along Peru's northern coast near what is now the country's third-largest city Trujillo. It flourished in the river valley oases from 100 A.D. to 800 A.D. The Lady of Cao dates to 450 A.D.
Don't think it twice and visit this wonderful department rich in archaeological remains.
Enjoy Peru
Miguel