Wari: Pre-Inca Lords of Peru is the first American museum exhibition devoted to a little-known culture that flourished between 600 and 1000 AD. If its uniqueness is not reason enough to visit the Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale, the exhibition’s beauty and intelligence surely are.

More than a millennium ago, from their capitol near modern-day Ayacucho — midway between Lima and Cuzco — the Wari established the first empire in Peru, pre-dating the much better known Inca by 400 years. They left behind textiles, ceramics, ornaments and small-scale sculptures that demonstrate their esthetic sophistication and speak distinctly to modern sensibilities. But with no written records, their meaning and use are subject to scholarly inference.

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In the Rural Community of Queracucho in the district of Macusani, embryo transfer involving alpacas has been introduced through the Biotechnology Project of the Provincial Municipality of Carabaya. This involved the transfer of 17 embryos from high quality alpacas to females of lower quality.