Machu Pichu exhibition

The Australian Museum in Sydney followed it's Ramses II display  by this and did it  again, very well. We went with cousin John and  Penny and Jacqui and the boys for our first ride on the new $3 billion driverless Metro to a new station -Gadigal via another new one- Waterloo.  it was hard to believe we were in old fashioned Sydney and not Hong Kong or Singapore.

The new stations are cavernous, the trains are fast, very well airconditioned  and interiors well designed. The boys liked the train more than the exhibition-of course!

We've been to MP some years ago  so knew it to be stunning.

The exhibition had a single focus on the Chimo empire and the Gods at that time and the way societal activities, all trades and rituals etc  were  entirely given over to appeasing the Gods  over climate and soil fertility. . The goldsmith work was  very impressive. Creatures from the animal kingdom played a very significant role in the rituals and stories, much as the Australian aboriginal ones do but much more bloodthirsty in Peru, with ritual human sacrifice.

Of course the whole thing came crashing down when the Spaniards arrived and stole all the precious objects they could get their hands on.

Fortunately many artifacts  survived as well as the chronology of dynasties dating back to 1000+ years BCE, up to mid 1500, so quite a chunk. They could have said more about stone masonry and architecture, but overall very well presented and the air conditioning very welcome as it was nearly 40 Deg C outside, when we left to eat our sandwiches in Hyde Park.