Bolivia - Mysteries

The Sajama Lines: Bolivia’s Giant Geoglyphs, Bigger Than Nazca

November 9, 2026November 9, 2026 by Tommy Hayes

A map of the Sajama Lines network in Bolivia, showing thousands of straight paths radiating from centres across the Altiplano (this is a map of the lines, not a photograph — the lines are best seen from the air)

About 4 min readPeru’s Nazca Lines are world-famous; a few hundred kilometres away in Bolivia lies a network fifteen times larger — and almost nobody has heard of it. Thousands of ruler-straight paths, some twenty kilometres long, link shrines and burial towers across the high Altiplano. Who built 16,000 kilometres of road to nowhere, and why?

Puma Punku: The Stones That Launched a Thousand Alien Theories

November 8, 2026November 7, 2026 by Tommy Hayes

Massive precision-cut stone blocks scattered at Puma Punku, Bolivia

About 4 min readOn a windswept plain 3,850 metres up in Bolivia lie stone blocks cut with near-millimetre precision — some weighing 131 tonnes. Ancient-alien theorists say no human could have made them. The archaeology says otherwise.