Inca Stonework: How Cusco’s Builders Fitted the Andes into Their Walls
Inca masons shaped local stone one block at a time. Quarry evidence and unfinished walls help archaeologists reconstruct how they built, moved and fitted the stones.
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Inca quipu writing may have preserved ancient climate records in knotted strings
High in the Peruvian Andes, the villagers of Santa Leonor de Jucul have kept a cord archive that may preserve something few written chronicles ever captured from the ground up:…
10 Mysterious Lost Civilizations of the Ancient World
There exists a captivating world of unveiled treasures, astounding architecture, scientific advancements, and rich religious and cultural history of multiple lesser-known ancient civilizations that are still being excavated. The findings have left…
Caral – the Ancient Pyramid City of Peru Explained in 7 Facts
“Sometimes I’ll pick up the “heart of the jungle” fossil on my bookshelf, or pull out my old field notebooks from my desk drawer, warped by Amazonian rains and the…
The Ancient Worship of the Sun; 5 Ancient Civilizations That Venerated It
Thousands of years ago, cultures around the globe worshipped the sun. This is no surprise since the sun is the brightest object in the sky, rising and setting each day…
What You Probably Didn’t Know About Ollantaytambo
Some 90 kilometers from the present-day city of Cuzco in Peru lay the remains of one of South America’s most impressive ancient archaeological sites. Not many people know of Ollantaytambo,…
5 Reasons Why We Still Don’t Know the True Purpose of the Pyramids
“…men are capable of perceiving the Pyramid in an astonishing number of ways. Some have thought the Pyramid was an astronomic and astrological observatory. Some have thought it functioned as…
The Face of the Inca at Machu Picchu: Natural Formation or Sacred Landscape?
From one angle, the mountains around Machu Picchu seem to form a human profile: a brow, nose, lips and chin cut into the ridgeline. Visitors and photographs often call it…