Mount Picchu
Day 2,309, 15:22
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Welcome to the world of the Unknown.
Machu Picchu / Mount Picchu
This temple in the sky looks stunning and one day I would really love to visit Peru, Mount Picchu is a 15th-century Inca site located 2,430 meters (7,970 ft) above sea level and it looks beautiful.
What really get people going about this site is the walls.
I'm not a stone cutter by I'm sure someone can explain how these stone were crafted or can they?
What was this temple really used for?
Please do your own research as the truth is waiting to be found!
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theres a good deal going on with the gov now that you can buy your own house with 5% deposit, no need to cut your own stones 😉
Machu Picchu (machu=old and Picchu=mount/mountain/peak in Quechua, language of the incas) :3
Thank you, reading 'Mount Picchu' was annoying me!
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"speical presion"
Okayyyy then.
Surely if you battered a stone enough erosion would make it the shape you wanted?
I think the precision tool you're looking for is... a chisel?
The construction methods used there look to be ashlar (straight) and encased coursed masonry (irregular) and both have been around considerably longer than Machu Picchu has.
Usually blocks would be split along natural fissures or ones could be created using a specialist seasonal tool known as frost. If you bore holes into rocks along a line and hammer dampened wood into the boreholes then - when it freezes overnight and the wood expands - the rock will split along that line.
That alone wouldn't account for the exceptional accuracy on the temples but the rocks could be 'polished' using the tools available at the time. Another plausible theory is that the rocks could be carried to the top of a straight run on a hill/mountain and slid down, the run acting as a rudimentary sanding belt.
There are numerous examples throughout the World of much of the architecture on display at Machu Picchu and the exceptional construction is only on the exceptional buildings. It'd have taken thousands of men but, if it were a pilgrimage destination as is theorized, then it's likely such devotion would be afforded to it.
The real wonders of the site are in the irrigation and the sheer effort and organisation required.
Although I don't feel there's anything odd behind this one I do love a good mystery or yarn so I'll look forward to more. o/
Just as an additional note it's more than likely dwellings such as the one in the bottom picture were made entirely from reject blocks that either weren't square enough for the coursed masonry or simply didn't fit into the polygonal masonry.
Almost all quarried material was used, even the tiny chippings were used for courtyards and walkways.
Totally just got schooled o_O
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