4 pre-Hispanic textiles are recovered throughout an operation to stop illicit trafficking of cultural property in Surco

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He Ministry of Tradition recovered 4 textile cloaks of alleged pre-Hispanic origin, on account of a prevention operation towards the illicit trafficking of cultural property, carried out along with different allied entities, in a industrial institution promoting antiques within the Surco district.

These items with significance, which means and archaeological worth, would correspond to the Chancay and Chimú cultures, societies that came about greater than six centuries in the past within the so-called Late Intermediate interval (1000 AD – 1476 AD), within the north of the Lima area and on the north coast of Peru, respectively.

The diligence was carried out by specialists from the Restoration Directorate – a unit of the Normal Directorate of Protection of Cultural Heritage -, with the help of personnel from the Public Ministry, by the Second Crime Prevention Prosecutor’s Workplace of the Lima Fiscal District; in addition to the members of the Nationwide Police of Peru, belonging to the Investigation Division of Crimes towards Cultural Heritage of the Fiscal Police.

As anticipated by the commissioners of the Tradition sector, among the many actions can be the willpower of “provisional safety”, a mechanism consisting of the adoption of measures resulting in the conservation and bodily and authorized safety of property, that are presumed to belong to the Cultural Heritage of the Nation. .