Tiwanaku: Spiritual and Political Centre of the Tiwanaku Culture was the capital of a powerful empire that lasted several centuries and it was characterized by the use of new technologies and ...

Indeed, while gold, silver and gemstones were valued commodities in Tiwanaku, real wealth was counted in textiles. No pre-Columbian Andean society –either before or after Tiwanaku–seems to ...

Located in Bolivia, near Lake Titicaca, the ancient city of Tiwanaku was built almost 13,000 feet (4,000 meters) above sea level, making it one of the highest urban centers ever constructed.

Their distribution in the Andes is restricted to the neighbourhood of Tiahuanaco itself, but on the coast a closely related style in pottery and textiles, little later than the culmination of the ...

Tiwanaku, the spiritual and political centre of Bolivia’s Tiwanaku culture, is seventy kilometres west of La Paz and fifteen kilometres from the shores of Lake Titicaca. Inscribed on UNESCO’s World ...

The Tiwanaku civilisation, which precedes the Inca civilisation and has a lifespan of 25 centuries, is known as the 'mother culture' of South America. The civilisation mysteriously vanished ...

Typical Tiwanaku-period offerings at Khoa Reef in Lake Titicaca, Bolivia, including stone carvings and sacrificial animal bones. Image courtesy of Teddy Seguin Hundreds of years before the Inca ...

They radiocarbon-dated the bundle to between 905 and 1170 CE, which is when the Tiwanaku Empire (a predecessor of the Inca and rival of the nearby Wari) was crumbling into smaller regional states.

Six years later, researchers think they now know what the objects represent—evidence of a religion that helped the Tiwanaku state become a dominant force in the region. Results of the excavation ...

As Bennett made its glorious return to the village of Tiwanaku, the skies opened again to greet him. But in contrast to the sadness that characterised the 1932 storm, Saturday's downpour could do ...