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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Kelly Burke

Golden bling, ‘sex pot’ ceramics and superheroes: Peruvian empire treasures come to Sydney in new exhibition

A Chimu noble's funeral garb, part of the Australian Museum's Machu Picchu exhibition
A Chimu noble's funeral garb, part of the Australian Museum's Machu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru exhibition. Photograph: Neon Global

The Australian Museum’s record-breaking blockbuster Ramses & the Gold of the Pharaohs was always going to be a hard act to follow.

The great Inca citadel, instantly recognisable as Peru’s world heritage-listed Machu Picchu, is the drawing card for the museum’s major summer exhibition. And while Incan civilisations may not hold the same universal fascination as Egyptology, visitors may be surprised about how little they had known about the complex societies that disappeared with the Spanish invasion, before experiencing Machu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru.

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