The Fuente Magna Bowl
"The Fuenta Magna is a large stone vessel, resembling a libation bowl, that was found in 1958 near Lake Titicaca in Bolivia. It features beautifully engraved anthropomorphic characters, zoological motifs characteristic of the local culture, and, more surprisingly, two types of scripts--a proto-Sumerian ancient alphabet and a local language of the ancient Pukara, forerunner of the Tiahuanaco civilization. Often referred to as “the Rosetta Stone of the Americas,” the stone vessel is one of the most controversial artifacts in South America as it raises questions about whether there may have been a connection between the Sumerians and the ancient inhabitants of the Andes, located thousands of miles away."
- Text from "Fuente Magna, the Controversial Rosetta Stone of the Americas" (April Holloway)
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Blog Posts and Articles
- "The Fuente Magna Bowl: Still Fake" (Jason Colavito, 4/13/2015)
- "10 Amazing Discoveries that Will [Won't] Make You Question Everything" (Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews, 4./13/2015)
- "Sumerians in Bolivia? Probably Not" (Carl Feagans, 3/23/2015)
- "Sumerians in Bolivia: Afrocentrism and the Potokia Monolith" (Jason Colavito, 3/18/2012)
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