Gold Museum, Bogotá
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The Museum of Gold is an archaeology museum located in Bogotá, Colombia. It is one of the most visited tourist highlights in the country. The museum receives around 500,000 tourists per year.
View of the Museum of Gold
Calima culture heart-shaped pectoral as displayed in the temporary exhibition of Museum of Gold's exhibits at the Royal Castle in Warsaw
The Muisca raft is the main piece in the Offering Boat Room
Gold pieces
El Dorado
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El Dorado is a mythical city of gold supposedly located somewhere in South America. The legend originated in 16th-century Spanish accounts of a ruler known as el Dorado, or the Golden One, who was sai
Gold Museum, Bogotá
…museum houses the famous Muisca golden raft found in Pasca in 1969, that represents the ceremony of the new zipa (ruler) of Muyquytá, the basis for the El Dorado myth. The heir to the chieftaincy assumed power with a great offering to the gods. In this representation he is seen standing at the centre of a raft…
Lake Guatavita in the Cundiboyacan Plateau, which inspired the legend of El Dorado according to the Muisca Golden ceremony
Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada
A Muisca tunjo
The Muisca raft