Description Includes pictures Includes historical accounts describing the site Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Tiahuanaco is not a very large village, but it is celebrated for the great edifices near it, which are certainly things worth seeing.
Near the buildings there is a hill made by the hands of men, on great foundations of stone.
Beyond this hill there are two stone idols, of the human shape and figure, the features very skillfully carved, so that they appear to have been done by the hand of some great master.
They are so large that they seem like small giants, and it is clear that they have on a sort of clothing different from those now worn by the natives of these parts.
- Cieza de L on, 1883 Few ancient ruins capture the imagination like the mighty holy site of Tiwanaku, located on the high Andean altiplano plateau outside of La Paz, Bolivia.
Unlike some ancient sites, such as Machu Picchu in neighboring Peru or Chichen Itz in Mexico, Tiwanaku has never been lost; on the contrary, it has been marveled over for centuries by Incan nobles, Spanish Conquistadores, modern backpackers, and UFO fanatics alike.
Despite this history of amazement, Tiwanaku has remained something of an enigma until recently, but it appears that this would have probably been pleasing to its creators.
It was created to be a mysterious, sacred, and beautiful place, one with many secrets and a public face characterized by PT Barnum-like showmanship.
Skillful modern archaeology has allowed people to look behind the facade and see, for the first time in many, many centuries, some of the secrets behind it.
The story is fascinating, complex, and thoroughly human.
The modern visitor arriving to Tiahuanaco finds him or herself in, as Cieza de L on noted almost 130 years ago, a not very notable, dusty, chilly settlement south of Lake Titicaca.
The place would not be of any great interest except that to the east and south of the modern village, within walking di.
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Tiwanaku: the history and legacy of the ancient pre-colombian site in the heart of the andes, paperback/charles river editors
