Bennett Monolith

The Bennett Monolith is a monumental stone sculpture from the pre-Columbian Tiwanaku civilization, located in present-day Bolivia. Standing approximately 7.3 meters (24 feet) tall and weighing around 20 tons, it is the largest known human-carved monolithic statue in the Andean region and the Western hemisphere.

Originally called "Stela 10", the monolith was named after American archaeologist Wendell C. Bennett, who exhumed the artifact in 1932 from the Semi-Subterranean Temple at the Tiwanaku archaeological site. It was possibly detected earlier in 1903 by the French Scientific Mission.

The monolith was moved and displayed in a plaza in La Paz, Bolivia. In 2000, it was moved back to Tiwanaku. The structure is currently housed at the Tiwanaku Site Museum, near where it was originally found.

The statue is made of reddish sandstone.

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