Bolivia
Every logged mystery in this country.
- La Paz Department
Fiesta de las Ñatitas
Human skulls kept in Bolivian homes as protectors of the household, given coca and cigarettes through the year, and carried each November 8 to the General Cemetery of La Paz to be crowned with flowers and blessed by priests whose Church does not recognize the practice.
- La Paz
Fuente Magna
A stone libation bowl pulled from a Bolivian farm in 1958 carries inscriptions some researchers read as proto-Sumerian cuneiform sitting beside a separate local script, a claim that would rewrite transoceanic contact with the ancient Andes if it held up.
- La Paz
Pumapunku
A platform begun at Tiwanaku around AD 580, its andesite blocks carved into interlocking H shapes and repeated like parts from a kit. Posts online say the stones were cut to micron precision. The finest published measurements are to 1 millimeter, and a researcher using flint, obsidian, and hematite reproduced their right angles and sharp edges by hand.