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Every night, under cover of darkness, the grave robbers continue to find treasures, raiding the tombs of the Moche, Chimu, Chancay, Paracas, Nasca…The treasures they unearth are bought for pitiful sums by unscrupulous merchants, and sold on the black market. The entire coastal region is like an enormous archaeological treasure, with hundreds of thousands of burial sites. The police cannot hope to guard all this territory, and the bands of ransackers are always able to find a way to escape unnoticed. In the course of a year, many grave robbers die, buried alive. At times, the fragile walls of the shafts they dig collapse, entombing them.

The ‘Huaca Rajada’, the ‘Cracked Tomb’, is the burial complex of the Lord of Sipan. Excavations are still going on at this extraordinary find. uried in a wooden coffin, the first to be discovered in America, the Lord of Sipan lies surrounded by enormous quantities of gold and silver objects. He was buried along with his three wives, a warrior, a priest and a child. And further up, in a corner, the guardian, his feet cut off, to symbolically prevent him from escaping.
He was a boy of around nine years old who, because he was pure, would be able to lead his master into the after-life.

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