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walls. Women, carved in stone, dandled babies in their
laps, or bore them on their backs. In a thousand natural
postures, people stood or reclined."
Not one of these statues stands today. The greed
of civilization has literally devastated Tiahuanaco with
vandalism and thievery.
However, vandals through the centuries who
visited this fabulous storehouse of prehistory did what
most do who have the treasure fever - they ignored the
intellectual values which were less obvious. The great
stone gate in the temple of Kalasasaya has inscriptions
across its arch and on its pillars which, to the untrained
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