Pagina Siete reports: PACEÑA WINS GOLD MEDAL AT MONDE SELECTION For the seventy-second time, the International Quality Selection Institute Monde Selection awarded a gold medal to Paceña beer, after a process of scientific selection and of high demand. The emblem was received this year in Malta by the master brewer who guides the preparation of…
Tag: Bolivian heritage
Underwater archaeologists dig in Lake Titicaca
El Diario reports: Underwater archaeologists dig in Lake Titicaca A scientific mission of underwater archaeologists of the Lake Project began excavation in the depths of Titicaca to identify certain settlements with cultural features of pre-Hispanic civilizations that were detected with a sonar underwater. Excavations are carried out in the Puerto Perez sector of the smaller…
Tiwanaku: Population inhabits pre-Hispanic city … the one that gave construction technology to the Incas
El Diario reports: According to archaeologist Population inhabits pre-Hispanic city A technical archaeological investigation carried out by remote sensing – used for the first time in Bolivia by Unesco – that uses dron flights and satellite images, changed the vision of what has been the ceremonial center of Tiwanaku. This information was released by the…
Stamps: 1927 six-pointed star overprints hint at Bolivia’s political past
Linn’s Stamp News reports: 1927 six-pointed star overprints hint at Bolivia’s political past Stamps of Latin America — By Thomas P. Myers Beginning in 1919, with Scott 118, Bolivia initiated a series of definitive stamps featuring the coat of arms of Bolivia. At first, the stamps were printed by the American Bank Note Co.; then…
Environmental damage continues to affect our National Heritage!
El Diario reports: Cerro Rico de Potosí sinks in 60 meters The Cerro Rico de Potosí recorded a sinking of magnitude at the top of the mountain that has a radius of 30 meters and a depth of 60 meters. This situation occurs prior to the visit of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural…
Bolivia and the trades of yesterday
Ivone Juárez reports for Pagina Siete: The trades of yesterday in La Paz Most of them disappeared: the dairy women did not walk the streets, nor did the ice-cream parlors with the cart full of photographs or the chamuñero, who was tempted with his marshmallows at the exit of the cinemas and the theater. One…
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