ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The Paracas peninsula, whose name means "sand falling like rain," is a rainless, inhospitable area of frequent sandstorms on the south coast of Peru. Its deserts have preserved fragile objects deposited in cemeteries some two thousand years ago. During excavations on the peninsula in the late 1920s, Peruvian archaeologists recovered more than four hundred textile-wrapped funerary bundles. Ceramic vessels attributable to the Paracas culture have been found on the peninsula and in the nearby Pisco, Ica, and Nasca valleys.
