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@joy_6.9

3 жыл бұрын

❤️❤️

@pickledpigknuckles6945

3 жыл бұрын

Sacsayhuaman phonetically sounds exactly Like Sexy Woman

@AncientArchitects

3 жыл бұрын

Haha. I know

@doomed2die595

3 жыл бұрын

Can someone in comments use their superior knowledge of 3d rendering and use the linked 3d model of the site, and use a program like sketch fab to cut and slice, turn and flip the boulders and wrecked areas and perhaps maybe tetris it back together sort of it dont need to be perfect just create a better overall picture, come on smarter people then me callin on my fellow Archinerds

@geoffbeyrent6950

3 жыл бұрын

This is a well rendered hypothesis. It leaves me wondering what the water table looked like during the times of construction and use.

Several methods of fabrication of the polygonal masonry using clay/gypsum replicas, a topography translator, reduced clay models of the stone blocks, and a 3D-pantograph are described in the article “Fabrication methods of the polygonal masonry of large tightly fitted stone blocks with curved surface interfaces in megalithic structures of Peru” (DOI: 10.20944/preprints202108.0087.v5). I do not provide a direct link, because KZread does not allow a comment with this link. Search by the article title.

@hermanlequint2740

Жыл бұрын

Lol the article says all the polygonal masonry worldwide was built by Europeans since the 17th century 😅

@SueDonum123

Жыл бұрын

I’ve read your article. This method is way too complex to be successful. The way it was really done is far more simple than what you propose

@RostislavLapshin

Жыл бұрын

The 10th article edition (DOI: 10.20944/preprints202108.0087.v10) is posted. Search the article by DOI or by title.

That last bit where you showed the condor gave me chills. I really appreciate this video for its thoroughness. With regards to Huacas, most carved boulders are huacas, but not all huacas are carved stones, they also include stone idols (not thought to exist anymore), as well as natural features like rivers, mountains, or otherwise sacred spots. Every Inca source unequivocally states that the Huacas are very old, from well before the time of the Inca, basically lost to history, sometimes related to legends of Wiracocha turning people to stone, so it's possible that they were carved in recent times, but honestly I find it unlikely given the oral history. Also, there's no tunnel from Chincana Grande (or Piedra Cansada) to Qocha Chincana. But Chincana is a word that refers to the tunnels, and apparently means "place where one gets lost", so Qocha Chincana is "lake of tunnels". The tunnel that connects to the lake (at least the accessible one) goes a short distance to the east where it emerges among some very odd rock formations.

@AncientArchitects

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I admit, I am still learning. This channel is basically my current level of knowledge :)

@juliansolros3823

3 жыл бұрын

It’s refreshing. Honestly if I read textbooks as a kid and they had said “we think this is what happened, but we really have no idea and it’s mostly just mysterious” I would have been way more interested in history.

@tanner1985

2 жыл бұрын

@@juliansolros3823 you seem exceptionally interested anyway indeed!

I love it when you use your geological expertise. Thanks for another fascinating video.

@AncientArchitects

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching

Excellent synthesis, Matt. You might add that if you channel in order to control the water, you probably would have no difficulty controlling the populace below: any sign of trouble and "the angry gods" could divert the flow with a sluice, perhaps collecting water in the great basin, and dry up the waterfall into the city. That would be both theatrically and practically quite effective, I can imagine.

@tanner1985

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting connection with politics and crowds management!

WOW just wow! You are peeling back the layers of mystery bit by bit. Keep it coming because we here all love it!

@AncientArchitects

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you I really enjoyed making this video!

Gotta love all the work you do. Always well put together.

@AncientArchitects

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you 🙏

OMG I saw the condor and the hawk! Thanks for validating the human endeavor and design.

@VibrationsfromMirror

3 жыл бұрын

Wyoming National Park has a Hawk too. HUGE and gorgeous view!

Just when an AA therapy session is needed, there it is in its splendor, perfectly on time, and perfectly perfect. Thank you Matt for takin my brain away from me for 24 min.......48 min im watchin this twice.

@AncientArchitects

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Making these videos also takes me away from real life. :)

@doomed2die595

3 жыл бұрын

@@AncientArchitects Hope yur doin good in real life Matt, survivin and healthy at the least.

@doomed2die595

3 жыл бұрын

@Albert Frankenstien who said anything about aliens? AA is short for Ancient Architects yah dope lol.

@nicknewell23

3 жыл бұрын

@@doomed2die595 ya right nice try. aliens not gana trick me

@nicknewell23

3 жыл бұрын

@@doomed2die595 ya right nice try. aliens not gana trick me

We can appreciate all these structured puzzles that the ancients left for us to discover and wonder about.

Solid look at the contextual landscape. Nice work here as usual.

This is such a fantastic piece of work. I love how scientific you are about approaching your videos. I feel like some of these videos will be cited scientifically in the future in the same way you cite older papers from days gone by. Keep going this is amazing work

I've been thinking a lot about how water in general seems to have been massively sacred to ancient Southern and Central American peoples and I have to say I'm highly encouraged by this line of thinking about water rituals. I think we are just starting to scratch the surface on just how differently the ancients of the region looked at the natural world, and how highly they valued juxtaposition of earth and sky and water and animal symbology that they found in nature. As for water rituals, and what you described as a possible "flooding" ritual overseen by the ruler at Sacsayhuaman reminded me of a theory I had heard about the Teotihuacan complex and made me wonder if such a ritual might serve more than one purpose or meaning. Also a Sun and Moon temple site, I heard a theory that the entire Teotihuacan complex may have been built with the intention of flooding as there seems to be evidence of water around the bases of many of the structures there. I know its two separate cultures but it made me wonder if such a ritual, like their art and the Mayan writing system, might also too have been designed to have layers of meaning and purpose. For example I think the Teotihuacan theory mentioned the builders may have been using such a large area of controlled water flooding as a sort of massive stellar observatory using the still reflection in the water to view the night sky. The Earth Sky Water connection seemed to be aligned with this idea as well as the possibility that such a ritual may have even been a tribute to the ancestors destroyed by the flood as the Egyptians also incorporated ritual tributes to Zepteppi, and even the Moi of Easter Island and the Enclosures of Gobekli Teppe seem to have been connected to rituals honoring the past and the memory of the world and ancestors lost.

Archaeology has barely scratched the study of archaeological landscapes. There's a great deal to learn.

This is a fantastic video! I haven't heard anything about this site that makes so much sense, and with your explanations of what may have been there, I can't unsee it. It's no longer a strange place with strange architecture, but looks like a a very useful and beautiful site. No wonder it was so important. It must have been very impressive in it's day.

@auspiciouscloud8786

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly my thinking! Also it seems absurd that the pros don’t know this but why keep up the mystery??? Archeologists should be renamed to Liars For Tourism! ❤️ You are amazing Matt (Ancient Architects)!!

Dude , you are a professional at this . Awesome research

@AncientArchitects

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks man

Yes! still watching, just reserving future post to ask, wow, i think that area is a big manual valve to direct the water in different ways, to fill the pool, or go down the hill, etc. great video Matt!

Absolutely brilliant research Matt . Thank you so much . 🙏♥️

This actually makes a lot of sense! The way everything falls into place with this theory is really astounding.

@AncientArchitects

3 жыл бұрын

It did for me. Thank you

After getting a ton of bad news t work, this was a welcome sight. Thanks for turning this day around!

@AncientArchitects

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry to hear that. And glad the video helped

I truly can appreciate the theory/concept of the outline of condor aerial perspective. Nice!

As a materials scientist with a specialty in electrochemistry, my theory about the Giza pyramids involves connecting their construction with piezo-electric minerals also used by other pyramid cultures around the globe. First, I believe there was a global civilization in the past (prior to the 9500BC comet strike which was probably the worst of that 'cycle' of comet strikes) that was multi-cultural but sharing myths and philosophies, engineering and technology, and religion. From the global alignment of the pyramids in Egypt, South America and China, I believe intercontinental communication was possible by synchronously 'tuning' the piezo-electric pyramids like a radio network (remember crystal radios of the early 1900s?). I risk going further with this by hypothesizing that the huge, non-tomb, interior cavities at Giza act like resonant amplifiers of human brain waves (!!!) or some EM instrument that are transmitted like radio waves and picked up and amplified by the other piezo-electric caverns across the globe. And, the complement 'instrument' for that radio network were human 'sensitives' (the distant past, pre-cursors of the young men and women, eg Vestal Virgins?) whose 'special' talents were hereditary such that lineages were maintained just for that purpose. Also, running water is a conductor/amplifier aid which could explain why at Giza the pyramids were constructed on top of underground rivers. In anycase, personally i see links between the quartz, schist, mica and granite materials and pyramidal shapes at Giza, South Americ, China Siberia, Bosnia (!), Panang ...! It all adds up to electromagnetic technology.

@smalrebelion

2 жыл бұрын

I've had the thought for a while now that putting a large mass on top of a piezoelectric column like granite would produce a measurable voltage across the column due to natural vibrations in the earths crust. You are the first person to mention something similar that I've ever seen. Kudos to you good sir.

I appreciate your deskchair scholarship. We need more people examining such ancient sites in order to fully understand what the ancients were doing. The only part of your examination I openly object to is "seeing" images of the birds on the landscape from a higher view, mostly because the terrain does not look now like it looked then, but also because the images of such birds would have been different for the ancients than it is for us. Keep critically analyzing these ancient works!

you've gone into some detail in this one Matt , i like the outlines of the birds idea and your connection with the water channels is good too . can't wait for more info now thanks ..

@AncientArchitects

3 жыл бұрын

I try to go into as much detail as possible :) Thanks mate

Water management actually provides a reason for the tight-fit polygonal masonry. Once these techniques were mastered, they could then be applied more generally. Brilliant speculation!

@AncientArchitects

3 жыл бұрын

Yep... I speculate, but I guess that’s how every idea starts. I try to give the walls context.

@travishayes6678

3 жыл бұрын

@@AncientArchitects oh, I didn't mean it in a negative way at all. I love what you're doing!

@auspiciouscloud8786

2 жыл бұрын

@@travishayes6678 you’re apologizing for the wrong thing....

Just the thing to watch while I eat me dinner :)

@AncientArchitects

3 жыл бұрын

Enjoy!

All these things you cover really shows that we have very little idea about the last 100 thousand years of human life and the things we have done. Keep up the quality work

Great episode, Matt! 👍

@AncientArchitects

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Absolutely stunning... thank you for sharing your knowledge

Excellent powers of deduction. You'd make a great detective.

Love your videos bro. They are well researched and informative. I just had to point it out but, at 10:53 the main rock that is shown in the picture you used looked like a face that been badly eroded by water. I know this might just be paradolia but I had to point it out. Keep up the good work👍🏾👌🏾

@thugmessiah

3 жыл бұрын

I was just going to say the same thing, its definitely a face, you can see the lips, it looks olmec.. cool stuff

Great analysis. Very intrigued by the idea that the megalithic walls exist to prevent/control water leakage. Given enough clues about the "why" of the walls, maybe someday we'll be able to come back around to the "how."

Wow! What an eye opening analysis!

Fascinating theory. Plausible. Good work!

Thanks for your work on this mystery. I wanted to share a thought regarding the standard masonry that you point out in Sacsayhuaman. These crudely built small-stone wall seem to be a very common recent/modern practice of reconstruction/clean-up/Tourist-accommodation Not only in Peru but all ancient sites that attract tourists. I think I am hearing you say in your videos that you believe them to be something that is also ancient, but if you look at the old original Black and white photos that document of these sites you will not see these. Also, just go to Machu Picchu today, in person, and you will witness firsthand numerous men all over the site busy constructing (Reconstructing?) Walls, paths, buildings all around the original ancient stonework. They even admit that they are building it to look like what they think it would have looked like. You might want to clarify this in an upcoming video if I am correct.

Bravo. Well researched and presented. Their sophistication is breathtaking. Thanks Matt.

@AncientArchitects

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers 👍

Very good Matt enjoyed that immensely thank you for the research

Love the reservoir idea, makes perfect sense.

Thank YOU - This is a helpful information for me and my personal History research !!! I look to many of your videos and know the whole complex and the Storys about that. But again (i think it´s the 5th time), you have show me some really important things!!! The water management is some really important knowledge for our ancestors and.. ..our understanding for us and what they did long before us in this region int this hills. You have show again, that looking from above is much more important that we know. +++ One Point that you have given me Know +++ 4 Points you have give me in the last Years !!!!!!!! - waterresistand walls and the bigger looking view above this place with eagle eyes. - polagynal walls around the world and that they are often the oldest (foundation). - Special stonework marks, in global cultures that are official have no conact. - simularitys in so much Archeological sites and Mystical Storys and bounds. - and so on, pl do your thing and find more of this, i love History research! Thank you for you work! Any times nice to see it.. Greetings from Germany

@AncientArchitects

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! And good luck with the research!

Wow! I think you’re on the right track, Good research 😀 What outstanding hydrological abilities they had. They seem to have built everything with multi purpose in mind. But not such a stretch to the imagination when you add their beliefs of venerating the elements of the planet with water being the most important. Today we seem to build things for functionality only. Back then they created beautiful structures that worked functionally but with the added aspects of giving thanks and appreciation to the planet 👍💗👍

@anna_in_aotearoa3166

Жыл бұрын

It reminds me of Ancient Egypt, in terms of the complex overlap of asserting political power over the populace, managing essential resources, and integrating their religious beliefs into all of that?

Amazing investigation. I’m from Peru and this makes sense. Congratulations

well researched videos like this give validity to critical research of ancient sites that deviate from the academic canon.

Great ideas and presentation as usual!

I really like your detailed work and just started watching your videos about a month ago. What you have outlined here is worthy of respect and hopefully leads to even more studies of this area. After many years of interest and some research in ancient architecture and ancient obscured human history, I consider that the polygonal walls could have been made by using a type of sandbag or other soft fabric container that would bulge slightly when filled with some kind of geopolymer. Filled, stacked and poured, one layer at a time, given a little time to harden before stacking the next layer, they would conform together snugly, and after petrification over time and natural processes, what remains are the stone blocks we see today. What baffles me most is how it looks like there are certain animals represented in some areas of the walls. Another interesting idea I've heard presented before is frequency manipulation, total sci fi sounding but perhaps the molecular structure can be temporarily altered under certain wavelengths and then as the rocks were stacked, their edges were manipulated to sort of meld together. Thats a very wild idea but fun to hypothesize on. As for the out-of-place lighter chunks of rocks that appear to have carved sections of stairways and straight edges etc, I am thinking they are actually very ancient remnants of some other petrified ruins. Most remnants of extremely ancient times all over the world appear as just chunks of stones after all these years but in some rare cases we see bits and pieces of those monumental structures sticking out as a petrified stone imprint. In some cases you can even see that on the stone "carvings" are things that wouldn't need to be carved into stone that would only serve a purpose structurally. A rock doesn't need to have things such as crossbeams and bolts and rivets carved into them. We see random straight edges, perfectly cut squares and holes, straight edges that look like they would continue but instead suddenly end so precisely as if snapped off cleanly by an unfathomable force. These sections are considered to be rock-carved holes and walls in the sides of cliffs and stones in mainstream archaeology and they give their reasons, but the randomness of how it is all laid out leads me to believe its really very old pieces of structures that have seen many disasters over a long period of time, possibly petrified eons ago & eventually smashed to bits post-petrification, scattering pieces all over, like a rose dipped in liquid nitrogen and smashed into clean fragments. Might sound a bit weird but so does ancient primitive civilizations hand chiseling perfectly cut edges into some rocks laying around. This looks like (to me) old remains of a mega sized structure beneath the remaining land. You can see more outlines and whats left of other structural components under the grass and dirt and chunks of stone and ruins that go down, as well as walls that are partially buried. It could go down far. More recent civilization used its existing inner structure to their advantage with their waterway tunnels and the springs may well have been the water system of the previous mega structure that this ruin sits on top of! There is more to be unearthed. Thanks for reading my ramble

Great work Mr architect!

You made a good point, a very reasonable observation and conclusion!

Makes sense to me. Great work.

Another thoroughly researched, unbiased project. I'm glad there are people out there like you who can do this kind of research and present it in a very easy to consume way. I commented on your last video about how the water aspect changed my view of the site and this was beyond my expectations, thank you again for sharing. Also I don't think you are crazy about the condor, but the hawk was a bit squiffy :P

@AncientArchitects

3 жыл бұрын

Haha. I like to speculate a little 😂

One of your best videos !!!

@AncientArchitects

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks man!

Well done. Very intriguing.

@AncientArchitects

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers 👍

Great work, great video. Still following the evidence and logic. Thats what we want! Keep it commin'!

@AncientArchitects

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers

Great video and interpretation of this site. What a beautiful place it must have been.

@AncientArchitects

3 жыл бұрын

I like to think so. And there would have been so many buildings around too.

I love your research and appreciate this video very much. This is a nice fresh look at a problem that is begging to be solved

@AncientArchitects

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

You really need to see things and follow Your intuition, if You want to recognize groundstructures representing Condor and Falcon! There are worldwide examples of huge Pictures of animals on ground. Nazca is not o far away and is famous for it. Great work, Matt!

Keep up your interresting work...

We definitely need a video on inca, water, and ritual 👌

Thanks that was very eye opening. Take care. Kind regards Steve

Great stuff!

Alot of South America ruins are intimately linked to water, sweet water locations are usually marked by some sort of shrine niche, or sometimes a feature, carvings, model landscapes. It's all very pointedly done in reverence of water.

@AncientArchitects

3 жыл бұрын

Yes... these wak’a’s I think are natural limestone outcrops were water came from. So they carved them, honoured them and respected them. 👍

A pleasure to watch.

Very well done. Thanks

Absolutely brilliant

Herro everybody :)) This is excellent work. Water is the key for survival in bad times, having control over this and a backup is brilliant.

@AncientArchitects

3 жыл бұрын

Herro!

@olemann77

3 жыл бұрын

@@AncientArchitects This might be your best work man. I need to digest it a bit

@olemann77

3 жыл бұрын

@@ZeroOneInfinity Nothing mean about it.. its like his cool trademark.

You get a thumbs up on this one good work keep it up bro.

Interesting! I think you are spot on.

I love the thinking and hypothesis here! I agree, water was sacred to the Inca civilization. However, I personally do not think the Inca were the original creators of the site. They did not posses the means or technology to construct the polygonal rock walls and structures we see. Additionally, with only 10-15% of the site excavated, I believe we need to fully excavate the site in order to determine the possible true purpose for these megalithic structures. I believe the Inca found these sites post catastrophic event in which these megalithic structures were destroyed and saw the early reverence for these places and continued to honor and respect these sites in their own way. Whatever the answer is, we all can agree that there is no one theory or hypothesis that answers all of the mysteries of these places. We need to keep questioning and hypothesizing on the past until we can as accurately as possible describe the true nature and purpose of these mysteries. I really enjoyed the presentation.

@juliansolros3823

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, you have to wonder how long it took for that reservoir to fill in. If it was a reservoir in Inca times, it's a pretty significant feature that seems conspicuously absent from the chronicler's notes.

@vickyesperanza8267

3 жыл бұрын

God utterly destroyed them during the flood.

@On-Our-Radar-24News

3 жыл бұрын

@@vickyesperanza8267 LOL

@ast3663

2 жыл бұрын

your statement is very racist.

@On-Our-Radar-24News

2 жыл бұрын

@@ast3663 Who's statement is racist?

great vid well researched

The sculpted boulders look like models or practicing techniques for stone carving, ie steps, cavity, corners etc

Great video thanks

I swear Matt you know when I get home and have stuff to do But not after kicking back and watching this. Thanks sir.

@AncientArchitects

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha

Great job it makes sense, something new..

@AncientArchitects

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers

The site is so large, when I visited, was unable to see it all. Incas, etc we’re big on water and artesian springs. Near by, at about 15,000 ft is Baños del Inca, and of course above Machu Picchu, with irrigation/plumbing channels into the sites. Down River from Machu Picchu are hot thermal spring baths that I had visited too. Visited Caral as well. Irrigation canals line the Supe and other valleys that are still used today. Amazing culture, but disappearing Andean Glaciers aren’t replenishing these springs.

Great video and incredible insightful analysis!! Thank you!! Do you think the mysterious Moray structure is also a reservoir?

Thank you so much, Matt❤⛰❤

Visiting this site was truly remarkable, we have no idea what kind of advanced technology our ancestors had.

nice work .

Very convincing!

You might be on to something, but I still think that the Inca people came from Bolivia and found the ruins of a previous civilization! Keep up the good work Matt... Greetings from a Suspicious 0bserver from the Netherlands!

It's no coincidence that theres, animals, plants, figures, landscapes & probably astronomical objects embedded into the masonry either. Maybe that was on purpose to show how without water we wouldn't have those things. A way to celebrate their existence perhaps. Also interesting how the wall is facing Qocha Chincanas, like the things embedded in its design where always facing their source(water). Some food for thought, thanks for the videos.

@AncientArchitects

3 жыл бұрын

I agree. I think it was all part of the splendour of this site that celebrated nature and the gods

Great video

The water management makes sense but I disagree that it was built all at the same time. You could say that the Inka repaired and used this site before it's destruction. Thanks for sharing 👍

@auspiciouscloud8786

2 жыл бұрын

He NEVER said it was built all at the same time, what the heck and you’re not the only one.... 😡 Why do people have this immediate brain washed state of who built what, did you not watch the video....? Sounds like Matt is getting too close to the truth... keep diverting people from the truth by causing argument about who built it, omg your are missing the whole subject of the video. 😡

Well done!

@AncientArchitects

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers 👍👍

The polygonal megalithic structures reflect ancient technology beyond the capabilities of the Inca, who built atop pre-existing ruins.

Then keep scratching Sir. Another excellent video

thank you for the info

@AncientArchitects

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and commenting

Thank you !

Another great video! The major question remains the same - what kind of tools and technology did the primitive ancient people use to accomplish all of this? It’s not just polygonal masonry with some blocks weighing tens of tonnes, but carving the landscape on such a scale! Apart from this to complete such a mega project a lot of work had to be done prior, like geodesic research, planning. Not to mention proper logistics. Or maybe the people who built this were not so primitive? It takes more than just an obsession with water, religious beliefs and a mega workforce to construct this! Let’s not forget that this isn’t the only mind blowing archeological site in South America. For instance, there’s the 8 km long water channel in Cumbe Mayo carved in bedrock with unexplainable precision.

@AncientArchitects

3 жыл бұрын

I can’t answer the “how”. I think most Sacsayhuaman stone was quarried in situ, right there. The large basal blocks could have been very close to the final position.

@alexhoffmann9726

3 жыл бұрын

@@AncientArchitects The stone might have been quarried the same place as the construction, but what amount of bronze (or whatever material) the tools were made of it would have taken to produce? If it was thousands of people who worked there, they needed food etc. In Egypt the classic explanation is that it was done for the Pharaoh by slaves, here it definitely looks like it served a technological purpose (in Egypt actually it looks the same) and the explanation that the ancient ruler was obsessed with water simply doesn’t work...

@scifigeezer5271

3 жыл бұрын

@@alexhoffmann9726 yeah I mean who would be obsessed with the exilir of life?! 🤣 They didn't have taps back then.

@alexhoffmann9726

3 жыл бұрын

@@scifigeezer5271 Sure, that’s why they carved millions of tons of rock throughout the Americas, would’ve been easier to invent a tap and connect it to a bronze pipe as due to conventional history they had to use hundreds of millions of tonnes of it anyway! 😜

Thanks man : )

@AncientArchitects

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers mate

I think you are on the right track here

So refreshing to have an intelligent study of misunderstood historical archeology without making huge, unsupported claims of aliens as a default!

Thank you for your work. You give great thought. Curious your thought on the stone carved puma

Would you just Look at the detailing ; ( specifically of those..) The 3 or 4 linear ridges in different locations ; above water openings ; etc... I am very impressed by this (!) It gives me the impression of technological mastery and especially scientific insight !

Very informative my friend! It was beginning to look like a water park a little bit! People had to have fun back then too right? Dont feel bad about seeing things, I watch for things like that all the time! ( the land has many spirit shapes) I thought I saw HAND shapes at the ends of the zig zag walls from the aerial view! This is my favorite ancient site , would love to go there! I also saw what reminded me of the Olmec heads vaguely in that one boulder!

excellent video! they were the water kings.

@AncientArchitects

3 жыл бұрын

👍

Enjoyed

Fascinating, but where has all the water gone? Is there record of massive changes in weather etc. I know the Sahara was once wet and is evidenced, is there any for this area?

Good stuff

I did a google earth view zoomed out far enough and its evident the whole of Cusco valley is a big dry lake bed! with clear view of the 2 rivers that ran off to the east and west and the collapsed levy that drained the lake on the south-west corner. That explains why the giant retaining sea walls of Sacsayuaman to break lake waves. Sacsayuaman was probably still spewing glacier water long after Lake Cusco levy collapsed becoming Cusco valley. Thats when the ponds where created by the locals up there, to capture the water after the lake drained...Also Higher up in the mountains there are other lakes and glaciers that most likely nursed down to Cusco'.... just imagining. thank you @Ancient Architects

Thank you.

The water theory makes a lot of sense. As I was imagining water in these structures while watching your video, I couldn't help but think that the cutouts that look like inverted staircase steps, are actually water height markers. Some might have been marking the water level on ceremonial dates, like equinoxes. Others might have been user guided, as in when the water reached this cutout, a certain water channel was to be opened or closed.

@anna_in_aotearoa3166

Жыл бұрын

That makes so much sense!! 👍