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Pumapunku or Puma Punku (Aymara and Quechua 'Gate of the Puma') is a 6th-century T-shaped and strategically aligned man-made terraced platform mound with a sunken court and monumental structure on top. It is part of the Pumapunku complex, at the Tiwanaku Site near Tiwanacu, in western Bolivia. The Pumapunku complex is a collection of plazas and ...
Reconstruction, "establishes limited opportunities to re-create a non-surviving site, landscape, building, structure, or object in all new materials." [4] Other nations recognize some or all of these as potential treatments for historic structures. Canada recognizes preservation, rehabilitation, and restoration.
Scattered around the site of the Puma Punku are various types of cut stones. Due to the complexity of the stonework the site is often cited by conspiracy theorists to be a site of ancient alien intervention. These claims are entirely unsubstantiated. "Gateway of the Sun", Tiwanaku, drawn by Ephraim Squier in 1877. The vertical scale is ...
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, one of the two lending arms traditionally considered to be the World Bank. Typically lends to middle-income governments, also some creditworthy low-income countries. Founded in 1944. FY 2014 commitments $18.6 billion. Lends at market rate. Guarantees loans
Edmund Kiss was born in Germany in 1886 and later studied architecture.He claimed to have also studied archaeology, but there is no evidence that this is true.He was a soldier during the First World War.
A three-dimensional reconstruction of Zosia's face, a woman buried as a vampire, is pictured, in this undated handout photo taken in Stockholm, Sweden. / Credit: Oscar Nilsson - Project Pien ...
By Thomas Holdstock. PIEN, Poland (Reuters) - Buried with a padlock on her foot and an iron sickle across her neck, "Zosia" was never supposed to be able to come back from the dead.
Following the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War, and in accordance with 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement, Republic of Azerbaijan re-established authority on the part of the territories, previously de facto controlled by the breakaway Republic of Artsakh, which allowed Azerbaijan to begin construction projects and rehabilitation in areas of the Karabakh, many of which had been practically ...