
30/03/2024
Guatemala's giant mystery stone head
The site was 10 kilometres from a small village in La Democracia in the south of Guatemala.
News of the discovery first emerged when Dr Oscar Rafael Padilla Lara, a doctor of philosophy, lawyer and notary, received a photograph of the head in 1987 along with a description that the photograph was taken in the 1950s by the owner of the land.
Unfortunately when Dr Padilla arrived the statue was destroyed.
It was used as target practice by vandals.
This totally disfigured it, the eyes, nose and mouth had completely gone.
Padilla was able to measure its height as between 4 and 6 metres, with the head resting on a neck.
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