| Show I Expedition Discovers Tomb Of an Ancient Peruvian God NEW YORK YORE Discovery ot of the tomb of an ancient Peruvian god Is- Is important to American ogy as a discovery of the tomb King Tutankhamen was wai wa to o students of ancient Egyptian civilization wa was announced by Dr William WOllam Dun DIm can Strong of the department of 01 ar theology of Columbia university I Strong Stron said laid that the tomb was found this tola summer In the Vines Viru val yeS Icy ley Ie of Peru Penis and that the grave con tamed the remains of 01 the great treat tusked god 1104 last lt of 01 a dyn arty asty E which combined the roles role of ot priest warrior and nd also personified God Got Buried Burled with the god lod were a anum num I ber ben of objects representing the art artof artof of the gods god's god Iod people the Mochica whom Strong called the local I they Greeks Greeks they reached the highest artistic point of 01 early Peruvian libation Strong said aid he h placed the Use time thins of 11 the burial at t about 1000 A A D B It was wai the body of a very old manRe man man- He Ue bad hd lost ill all his teeth ex as- as two In hi the front and his akin was next nut to his bones bon proving that he be must have been bea very thin and Ivery 1 very possibly old old possibly about bout when he be died Strong said aid I The Hie discovery was ilia made during an expedition sponsored by br the In salute of Andean Research and participated in by b Columbia Amer Amer- AmerIcan ican loan Museum of Natural History Chicago Museum of Natural His Elk tory Yale Yale university and Smithson ian an Institution |
