ARCHAEOLOGY

TEMPLE TIMES TWO

A team led by archaeologist Jessica Ortiz Zevallos has returned to the Temple of the Painted Pillars at the site of Pañamarca in northwestern Peru, where they have image is of a two-faced man who is shown both on the top and the bottom of a pillar. “A person with two faces has never been seen in Moche painting,” says Columbia University archaeologist Lisa Trever. “It’s unique and shows the artists playing with portraying the same person in two different moments.”

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from ARCHAEOLOGY

ARCHAEOLOGY2 min read
Photo Credits
COVER—Album/Prisma; 6—Courtesy Coerte Voorhees, First Line Films; 9—Metropolitan Museum of Art; 10—Metropolitan Museum of Art; Courtesy N. S. Rangaraju; 11—Th. Flügen, AMF, H. Menzel; 12—Courtesy Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei; 13—Images by M
ARCHAEOLOGY2 min read
Palaces Of The Golden Horde
When Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales in the late fourteenth century, he set one of his stories in “Sarai, in the land of the Tartars.” At that time, Sarai was widely known as the capital of the mighty Golden Horde. An independent state within the
ARCHAEOLOGY2 min read
Artifact
The image of a medieval knight moving slowly and stiffly under the tremendous weight of his costly armor as he readies for battle or a joust is firmly fixed in people’s imagination. But, according to art historian Matthias Goll, much of this vision i

Related Books & Audiobooks