hi I’m Fred Hebert I’m the National
Geographic archaeology fellow and I’m
the guest curator and organizer of the
fantastic exhibition Peruvian gold
ancient treasures on earth this is an
exhibit which is about the northern
coast of Peru and it’s special
relationship it has with one of the most
iconic metals in the world gold we’ve
got a couple of cultures that we’re
highlighting from the pre inca time
period one culture the mochi around
2,000 years ago and one culture that had
the most extravagant old work in all of
Peru the secon culture from about a
thousand years ago National Geographic
has had a spotlight on Peru for more
than a hundred years our first rock star
archaeologist was Hiram Bingham in 1912
when he discovered and photographed the
magical city of Machu Picchu this
exhibition celebrates that long
relationship and we’re very lucky that
we’ve borrowed nearly a hundred objects
from national museums of Peru I’ll tell
you about one which I think is just
great it’s a Moche piece so it’s about
2,000 years old and it’s a mask in the
form of a human who’s holding two
dragons that have feline heads cat’s
heads on the big fangs and this one P is
sort of is iconic of the whole worldview
of ancient Peru with humans and the
animals and the transformation and you
get to see that all in one piece
this is the only time many of these
pieces will come to the United States
and probably won’t come back again you
get to see basically the pages of
National Geographic in 3d you’re going
to see the real artifacts you’re going
to see the real stories and the
scientists behind the stories
Geographic archaeology fellow and I’m
the guest curator and organizer of the
fantastic exhibition Peruvian gold
ancient treasures on earth this is an
exhibit which is about the northern
coast of Peru and it’s special
relationship it has with one of the most
iconic metals in the world gold we’ve
got a couple of cultures that we’re
highlighting from the pre inca time
period one culture the mochi around
2,000 years ago and one culture that had
the most extravagant old work in all of
Peru the secon culture from about a
thousand years ago National Geographic
has had a spotlight on Peru for more
than a hundred years our first rock star
archaeologist was Hiram Bingham in 1912
when he discovered and photographed the
magical city of Machu Picchu this
exhibition celebrates that long
relationship and we’re very lucky that
we’ve borrowed nearly a hundred objects
from national museums of Peru I’ll tell
you about one which I think is just
great it’s a Moche piece so it’s about
2,000 years old and it’s a mask in the
form of a human who’s holding two
dragons that have feline heads cat’s
heads on the big fangs and this one P is
sort of is iconic of the whole worldview
of ancient Peru with humans and the
animals and the transformation and you
get to see that all in one piece
this is the only time many of these
pieces will come to the United States
and probably won’t come back again you
get to see basically the pages of
National Geographic in 3d you’re going
to see the real artifacts you’re going
to see the real stories and the
scientists behind the stories
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