They all showed off their talents at this year's Smithsonian Folklife Festival. The theme: How youth keep cultural traditions ...

The Tiwanaku civilization thrived high in the Andes Mountains long before the Inca Empire started.

Located near Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, the millennia-old city of Tiwanaku was built almost 13,000 feet (4,000 meters) above sea level, making it one of the highest urban centers ever constructed ...

New temple discovery shows how Tiwanaku connected sacred rituals with Andean trade and political networks. Along the southern edge of Lake Titicaca in what is now Bolivia, a once-dominant civilization ...

A newly discovered temple complex 133 miles southeast of Tiwanaku suggests the civilization expanded to control trade between the highlands and eastern valleys, highlighting its political reach ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The discovery of an ancient Tiwanaku temple in Bolivia is helping researchers paint a more complete picture of what the society once looked like.

The discovery of an ancient Tiwanaku temple in Bolivia is helping researchers paint a more complete picture of what the society once looked like. The Tiwanaku civilization was considered one of ...

A newly uncovered temple complex, located 215 kilometers southeast of Tiwanaku’s established historical site, offers a deeper understanding of the once-thriving Tiwanaku civilization. This ancient ...

Ancient Temple Ruins Shed Light on Life of Tiwanaku, a Thriving Pre-Inca Civilization Recent archaeological discovery expands our knowledge on complex Indigenous societies in South America.

On the southern shores of Lake Titicaca in present-day Bolivia, more than a thousand years ago, one of the most powerful and enigmatic civilizations of the Andes developed: the Tiwanaku. Considered by ...

Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of an ancient South American temple they say has helped pull back the curtain on the workings of its enigmatic Andean civilization. Known as the Tiwanaku, the ...

A team of archaeologists has uncovered a lost temple from the Tiwanaku civilization in the highlands of Bolivia.