Megalithic Portal: Latest from Argentina

Museo del Fin del Mundo

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 04:00:22 GMT

]]>. Museum in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina

Tafi de Valle

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:31:28 GMT

]]>. Sculptured Stone in Argentina

Yokavil

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:31:08 GMT

]]>. Settlement in Argentina

Pucar� de Tilcara

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:07:23 GMT

]]>. Pre Incan settlement in Northern Argentina

Punta Walichu

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:59:22 GMT

]]>. Punta Walichu is a cliff dwelling site with caves and overhangs some 40 metres inland from the present day shore of Lago Argentino in Santa Cruz state in Argentinian Patagonia. It comprises a series of rock art paintings of symbols and anthropomorphic figures now all well faded but still visible.

Llullaillaco Vault

Sun, 07 Oct 2007 21:35:50 GMT

Study of hair contradicts Inca informants of 16th century. Willing sacrifices from Inca nobility, or terrorized peasant children? . Tomb in Argentina. The highest archaeological site on earth. This stone tomb lies on the flank of the active Llullaillaco volcano, at over 22,000 feet above sea level. It consists of an undressed stone platform. Within it three children between the ages of 6 and 15 years were given corn alcohol, placed within and sealed there with carefully placed stones.

MAAM

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 05:24:33 GMT

Exhibit opening astonishes crowd.. Museum in Argentina. The Museum of High Altitude Archaeology is purpose built to study and display the naturally preserved bodies of multiple Inca sacrifices discovered in the high Andes, immediately to the west of Salta, Argentina. In 2007, an exhibit of the "Children of LLullaillaco" opened, displaying what are possibly the most perfectly preserved human remains from the Inca Empire.