• Foto Number: PER-322

Very often, on the heights of the Collao Altiplano around Lake Titicaca, one finds those strange monolithic chullpas, mummy graves of high leaders and members of a mysterious race that existed "before the sun rose". In Sillustani, on the Umayo peninsula on the lake of the same name, there are twelve tomb towers, some of which have collapsed. - 1969

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  South America Peru Puno Altiplano Pre-Inca Sillustani precolombian Archaeology chullpa Burial tower Prehistoric