Ancient Paracas textiles in Paris

The Quai Branly museum in Paris was the first museum in exhibiting textiles from the Paracas culture, which are considered the oldest in the world. The Paracas textiles were discovered in 1925 by the Peruvian archaeologist Julio Cesar Tello. This is the first time that a collection of 84 pieces of textiles is shown out of Peru. These materials date back to the third centuries before and after Christ. They were made of cotton and alpaca fiber featuring anthropomorphic and zoomorphic characters, and colored with 190 different hues where red is the dominant color.