Moche Archaeological Sites
The Moche lived on the north coast of Peru in South America between about AD 100 and 800, and produced some of the finest portrait ceramics ever made in the world.
The El Brujo Complex is a major religious center of the Moche between the first and seventh centuries AD, located in the lower Chicama Valley.
Huaca de la Luna is a large Moche civilization settlement located adjacent to Huaca de la Sol, and both together make the site called Moche.
The Huaca del Sol is an enormous adobe (mud brick) Moche civilization pyramid, built in at least eight different stages between AD 0-600 at the site of Cerro Blanco in the Moche Valley of the northern coast of Peru
From Felipe Wood, a visit to Sipán, with some photographs of objects in the museum there. In Spanish.
Nicholas S. Corduan's catalog of Moche sites, by valley and with short descriptions; part of the Huaca del Moche site. English
Pakatnamú is a Moche period site, a small religious center and fortified city in northern Peru. This brief description of the site and Moche culture is in Spanish, and accompanies the Pakatnamu Folklore Dance home page.
Ongoing field school excavations at this Moche period site are being conducted as a joint project by Metropolitan State College of Denver, together with the California Institute for Peruvian Studies and the Universidad Nacional de Trujillo in Peru.
The Sipán site is a large Moche culture administrative and religious center, located in the lower Lambayeque Valley on the northern coast of Peru.
From Peru Explorer, a brief tourist description with some photographs.
