Nazca Culture Textile Fragment

This textile fragment from the Nazca culture (100 BC–800 AD) showcases the intricate craftsmanship of ancient southern Peru. The Nazca, known for elaborate textiles and polychrome ceramics, also created the Nazca Lines and engineered puquios , underground aqueducts crucial for agriculture in the arid region. Influenced by the Paracas and succeeded by the Wari, their culture thrived in the river valleys of the Rio Grande de Nazca and Ica Valley.