LIMA: The discovery of nine tombs in Peru from the prehispanic Wari civilization could shed new light into the origins of the the mighty Inca empire, the Peruvian government said Thursday. The finding in the southern Cusco region suggests the Wari, who flourished in the Peruvian Andes between 700 and 1200 AD, may have controlled areas where the Inca empire later flourished, said Juan Ossio, Peru's minister of culture. The Inca built the largest empire in the New World between 1400 and 1532 AD, when Spanish conquistadors seized control of their territory. The remains of a Wari noble with a silver breastplate is the prize of the find.
