Lord of the Sipan 2002

In 2002 we stopped at Guayaquil, Ecuador and went to the Lord of

The Sipan Tombs and a museum with containing artifacts from the

tombs.

Captain McIntyre was on the tour with us and I commented to him

that we were probably not going anywhere he had not already

seen. He told me a story about when the tombs were first

discovered (by the way, a lot of looting and grave robbing had

taken place before the archaeologists were able to protect the

area). Captain McIntyre was on a photography shoot in Brazil and                     

had spent a lot of money to hire a plane to get the aerial photographs

he wanted. He made a phone call to his wife & she told him National

Geographic was trying to contact him to photograph a new

archaeological site that had recently been discovered. Since

he had gone to several so-called new finds in the past which

had turned out to be duds & since he had this large investment

in photographing Brazil he chose not to go and consequently

was not the first person to photograph these tombs-a mistake

he now regrets.

The tombs were quite interesting. The actual remains, pottery

jewelry… are in the museum but replicas had been made for

the tombs so people could see what they looked like. The actual

skeleton of the Lord of Sipan has toured the world but is back

in a museum in Peru. This discovery has been compared with

that of King Tut.