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Stone City in the Sky

  • October 3, 2014
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

High in the southern Andes, near Bolivia’s Lake Titicaca, the ancient city of Tiwanaku thrived from 500 to 900 AD. While its dense population had an elaborate crop-irrigation system and included skilled masons, the people seem to have developed no system of writing.

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