Picture of Face in a golden bracelet in the Gold Museum (Bogotá, Colombia)

Golden bracelet in the Gold Museum

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While the Spanish did not find their El Dorado, gold was widely used in ancient South American cultures. The Gold Museum in Bogotá has a very extensive collection and brilliant display of all kinds of uses of gold.
Each floor has a different theme. After the history of gold that is dealt with on one floor, you can move up to the floor where you can see objects that were used in offerings to the gods. Dazzlingly beautiful items were used to offer to the gods in order to please them. Actually, it was rumours of these ceremonies that made the Spaniards think there should be much more gold than they eve discovered. In one case, a sacred lake in Colombia had for a long time been the target of gold diggers who were convinced that the bottom of the lake should be full of gold offered by indigenous shamans. It was seriously tried to take the water out of the lake, but none of those efforts eventually worked, and it was decided to leave the lake as it was. Even without that gold, the collection of the Museo del Oro is more than impressive enough.
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