Chiclayo Travel Guide

The Royal Tombs of Sipán Museum lies in Lambayeque, Peru, displaying the astonishing 1987 discovery of a Moche 'Lord of Sipán' tomb — gold masks, jewellery and ritual objects recreating the splendour around AD 250. The building itself rises in tiers evoking the tomb, and it is the foremost hall for understanding the craft, faith and power of the Andean pre-Inca civilisation.

Sipán, near Lambayeque in northern Peru, is a Moche ceremonial site where the tomb of the 'Lord of Sipán' (El Señor de Sipán) was found in 1987 — an unlooted royal burial of ~250 AD with dazzling gold, silver and jade, among the richest intact royal tombs in the Americas. The objects are shown at the Tumbas Reales museum in Lambayeque.