Footsteps to the past

摘要

The scattered ruins of the ancient city of Tiwanaku do little to inspire visions of its former splendour. Located near the southern shore of Lake Titicaca, on the Bolivian Altiplano, they are all that remain of a capital that once boasted a population of more than 100,000. Its people, also known as the Tiwanaku, established a great civilisation that prevailed for almost three millennia to become one of the world's longest-running empires.