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Someone told me these were lost stone working techniques when I visited. This makes so much more sense! The rocks are so large and smooth and fit together so pe
by nkingsy 6y ago
Someone told me these were lost stone working techniques when I visited. This makes so much more sense! The rocks are so large and smooth and fit together so perfectly, it is arrestingly beautiful.
- barbegal 6y agoI hate these types of claim. We know roughly what techniques could have been used. The mystery is maybe in why they went to such a great amount of effort. These buildings would have required many decades to construct and involved thousands of workers.
- garmaine 6y agoYeah, it's a bit like claims that "we don't know how they built the pyramids" and such. There are multiple competing theories. The fact that we don't know, for certain, exactly which one matches what was done thousands of years ago doesn't mean the technique has been "lost." There's no engineering mystery here, just a gap in historical knowledge.
- catalogia 6y agoHow the stones of the pyramids were worked is no great mystery. The interesting part is how they were lifted into place. The external-spiral-ramp and one-long-ramp theories both seem extremely unlikely. Internal-ramp seems plausible but isn't yet mainstream.
- tmn 6y agoCare to expand on these techniques?
- pengaru 6y agoSince Machu Picchu has been at least partially restored up to an arbitrary level of "ruin-ness", I wonder how much of this impression is due to that vs. the original construction. I have the impression that the place has been optimizing for maximum tourism, not preservation, for some time now.