Spokesperson Interview: Dr. Walter Alva, Behind the Scenes of “Mochicas, Masters of the Desert”
What made Dr. Walter Alva decide at the age of 12 that he wanted to become an archeologist? “The stories of myths, legends and stories referring to antiquity that my maternal grandmother used to tell me, feeding my imagination during my childhood, [and] creating a great expectation to know these mysteries,” says the Peruvian archeologist, now aged 70.