Kolata began his dig at Luqurmata last summer around the outer perimeters of Luqurmata`s temple buildings on the hill. Three skeletons–two of them headless, the third with no head and torso but its ...

Researchers led by Bolivian archaeologist José Capriles (Penn State University) discovered the Palaspata temple, a ceremonial complex linked to the Tiwanaku civilization, in Ocotavi, Oruro, Bolivia, ...

Located near Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, the millennia-old 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.

Long before the Inka (commonly known as Inca in English) rose to power, a mysterious civilization bloomed on the edge of Lake Titicaca. Known as Tiwanaku, it began as a humble farming village in the ...

An underwater excavation of Bolivia's Lake Titicaca has revealed extensive ritual offerings made by the early elite during the founding stages of the Tiwanaku state—a civilization established around 1 ...

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 without a ...

The city of Tiwanaku, capital of a powerful pre-Hispanic empire that dominated a large area of the southern Andes and beyond, reached its apogee between 500 and 900 AD. Its monumental remains testify ...

An archeologist shows a recently excavated pre-Hispanic vessel at the Kalasasaya temple in the ancient city of Tiwanaku, Bolivia, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019. Bolivian archaeologists will present the ...

Tiwanaku is one of South America’s most enigmatic ancient cities, but now people online claim something even older is hidden beneath it — stalactites said to be 12,000 years old. If true, these ...

Brien Foerster tests magnetic anomalies at Tiwanaku, Bolivia, using compasses and G meters. The expedition explores ancient megalithic structures and unique stonework. Unexpected compass reactions and ...

The few visitors who do come here, though, usually go to Tiwanaku, a small market town 10 miles west of Pampa Koani. It is the site of some massive ruins of an ancient culture of the same name, ...