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Title: Lords of Sipan: A Tale of Pre-Inca Tombs, Archaeology, and Crime by Sidney D. Kirkpatrick ISBN: 0-8050-2817-X Publisher: Henry Holt (P) Pub. Date: 01 December, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)

Rating: 3
Summary: Greed v's history and collectors
Comment: In January 1987 a group of tomb robbers at Huaca Rajada on Peru's north coast had their dreams come true. They stumbled on a pre-Inca tomb of unsurpassed wealth (read: gold) at a site everybody else had written off as already having been plundered. Unfortunatley, for them, greed was their undoing.

What they did manage to sell on the market was mostly exported out of Peru before the archaeolgists at the local museum found out what was going on.

This book details an investigation into international art smuggling, and the parallel investigation into the Moche site that the tomb robbers had found and the archaeologists later excavated.

In style, this book is esentially an extended magazine article. The text is quite large and easy to read. It's not really a big book. There is a colour picture section in the center of the book, but it can't really be called an academic book. In my view what really lets this work down is the lack of drawings etc of the historical site and excavation that they are talking about in the text.

If you've never read any books on the Moche before (and I haven't except the occasional magazine article), this book leaves you feeling somewhat dissasisfied because you want to know *more*, but it's a great introduction and overview to a series of very important events in re-discovering this ancient civilisation.

Rating: 4
Summary: A ripping yarn!
Comment: This is a great story of what happens when grave robbers find something just too good to keep a secret. The tombs they found were full of untold wealth. The personalities of the main characters in this tale are as fascinating as the beautiful treasure they unearth. This reads like fiction but as one other reviewer noted it is all true. I didn't feel the book had a strong finish, but the story itself was irresistable.

Rating: 5
Summary: Lords of Sipan : A Tale of Pre-Inca Tombs, Archaeology, and
Comment: At first I found this book (supposededly a true story)written in fictional style and too detailed in some cases to be considered real. But at the time I read this book and living in Lima Peru where the event takes place, I was able to do my own investigation. Now after having read this a second time and meeting others who know of this event first hand, including the police chief in Northern Peru, I can assure you everything I have questioned is 100% true.

The book is about the historic and heroic efforts of Dr. Walter Alva and several North American archiologists who helped uncover a lost civlization in South America and one of the largest finds of Gold and invaluable artifacts ever discovered in South America. It is a story of drama, money, murder and virtue winning in the end. Anyone interested in learning of a true to life experience, written like a novel, of Latin American Archiology will enjoy this book. It is a page turner.

Lima, Peru June 7, 2000