Pachacamac Idol of ancient Peru was symbolically painted
Wednesday, January 15, 2020 - 14:20
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The Pachacamac Idol of ancient Peru was a multicolored and emblematic sacred icon worshipped for almost 700 hundred years before Spanish conquest, according to a study published January 15, 2020 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Marcela Sepúlveda of the University of Tarapacá, Chile and colleagues.