National Museum of the Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of Peru, Lima

This guide to the National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology and History of Peru in Lima follows Julio Tello, a Quechua-raised doctor turned archaeologist who traced stolen grave cloths from a market stall back to a ridge on the Paracas peninsula in the nineteen-tens. You'll hear how a decade of digging led his team to a necropolis at Cerro Colorado in 1927, building the case that ancient Andean weavers, not European hands, had made work this fine. He became the museum's first director in 1939.