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Locals were getting rich on the finds at Sipan until the archaeologists got involved, and then took the artifacts and made a museum in an nearby town, while the locals were left out in the cold.
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Ventarron was built long before Sipan, about 2,000 years before Christ, he said.
Archive 2007-11-11 Bill Crider 2007
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It sits in the Lambayeque valley, near the ancient Sipan complex that Alva unearthed in the 1980s.
Archive 2007-11-11 Bill Crider 2007
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This issue, or the indigenous perception of it, is exactly where Walter Alva and the archaeologists ran so viciously afoul of local enmity at Sipan.
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It sits in the Lambayeque valley, near the ancient Sipan complex that Alva unearthed in the 1980s.
Peru Update Bill Crider 2007
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Ventarron was built long before Sipan, about 2,000 years before Christ, he said.
Peru Update Bill Crider 2007
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“The situation in Marja is very bad,” said Abdul Haq, a man from the Sipan area.
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The mythic image was also found in the celebrated Moche Lords of Sipan tombs, discovered on Peru's northern coast in the late 1980s.
Archive 2008-02-01 Jan 2008
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Walter Alva, the Peruvian archaeologist who uncovered the Lords of Sipan tombs, said the plaza found in Fuchs' dig was probably utilized by an advanced civilization with economic stability, a necessary condition to construct such a ceremonial site.
Archive 2008-02-01 Jan 2008
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A policeman in the Sipan area, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed that the eradication efforts had failed.
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