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Every logged mystery in this country.

  • La Paz

    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 8 November to the General Cemetery of La Paz to be crowned with flowers and blessed by priests whose Church does not recognise 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.

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