 The discovery, exploration and especially history of the Lambayeque culture, which succeeded to the Moche in and the around the valley bearing their people s name in northern Peru. Untill the Inca empire reduced them to a province, and its governor took his place on the highest, the 26 adobe pyramids of the dynasty s first capital Tucume -a larger cluster then any of the Pharanoic or Mayan capitals, in total they erected 250- were the seat of their priest-king and his high nobles, testimony to their power and the widely trading nation s wealth, which lasted until the advance of the Conquistadores caused them, in vain, to bring the supposedly unprecedentedly displeased gods a massive mass-sacrifice of men, women and children who willingly bend over to have their throats slid fast and fatally before the great fire which ended the use of the site.