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Graham Hancock – FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS
Assyrian relief of fish-garbed figure.
Images of extinct species
Leaving the fish-garbed figures, I came at last to the Gateway of the Sun,
located in the north-west corner of the Kalasasaya.
It proved to be a freestanding monolith of grey-green andesite about
12½ feet wide, 10 feet high and 18 inches thick, weighing an estimated
10 tons. Perhaps best envisaged as a sort of Arc de Triomphe, though
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on a much smaller scale, it looked in this setting like a door connecting
14 Figures and measurements from The Ancient Civilizations of Peru, p. 92.
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