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Machu Picchu and the treasures of Peru

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AD Copper and Strombus shell Length: 17.5 cm Width: 23.5 cm North coast © Larco Museum, Lima-Peru.

By: Jean-François Cadet Follow

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Royal finery, gold and silver jewelry, funerary objects never exhibited outside Peru, the City of Architecture and Heritage, offers until September 4 an unprecedented vision of the history of Machu Pichu , this Inca site listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. 

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It is an exhibition that will amaze you.

Impressive royal finery, funerary objects never taken out of Peru, gold and silver jewellery, mummies' tunics, ceramics decorated with erotic or sacred scenes, not forgetting the sumptuous aerial images of Machu Picchu: the City of architecture and heritage - at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris - invites us on a spectacular journey to Peru, through 3,000 years of civilization, from its origins to the Inca Empire.

An immersive journey that allows us to discover the cosmovision, beliefs and rituals of an Andean world that continues to fascinate us.

"Machu Picchu and the treasures of Peru" to discover at the City of Architecture and Heritage, at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris until September 4.

Our guest

: Carole Fraresso

, curator of the exhibition, associate researcher at the Larco museum.

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