Press TV reports: Bolivia recovers 22 historical artifacts from Germany Bolivia has recovered 22 archaeological pieces in Germany which experts believe may belong to the legendary Tiwanaku culture. [to watch a video, please use the link below] These artifacts were in the possession of Tobias Wagner Berger of Germany. Berger is the son of a…
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Potosi, Bolivia – in pictures
Instagram snapshots: Carolyn Stritch in Bolivia – in pictures Bolivia’s stark beauty, grand (and less grand) buildings and local beer were an inspiration to this traveller on a South American road trip High in Potosí I’m from Newcastle, but I’ve been travelling since January 2015. Potosí is one of the world’s highest cities, and while…
Steven Soderbergh Wants You To Drink Bolivian Booze
Paste Monthly reports: Steven Soderbergh Wants You To Drink Bolivian Booze By Travis Mitchell The first time Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh encountered signai, it was love at first sip. “I had an instant reaction,” he says. “I had never tasted anything like it.” That was back in 2007 at the launch party for his movie…
Bolivian men and women in violent harvest festival punch up, in pictures
From The Telegraph: Bolivian men and women in violent harvest festival punch up, in pictures Pictures: Martin Pashley/Solent News Thousands of villagers high up in the Bolivian Andes have taken part in a street fight with the aim of ‘spilling as much blood as possible’. Men and women dressed in colourful clothes take part in…
History 101: how silver turned Potosí into ‘the first city of capitalism’
A great article regarding Potosi, by The Guardian: Story of cities #6: how silver turned Potosí into ‘the first city of capitalism’ The discovery of a mountain of silver (and a new way to extract it) transformed this remote Incan hamlet into the economic centre of Spain’s empire – larger than London, Milan or Seville….
A hundred years’ research of the Puerta del Sol
El Diario reports: A hundred years’ research of the Puerta del Sol A collection of national and foreign researchers made by Julio Cesar Velasquez, former Director of the National Museum of Archaeology, was reflected in the text entitled “Enigmatic Puerta del Sol, in a colossus and mysterious Tiwanaku,” dating back to 1890, date on which…
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