Impossible Ancient Monuments in the Peruvian Andes
In the Peruvian Andes, near Cuzco and the Urabamba River Valley are walls unlike any other on Earth, including those of other ancient monolithic stonework such as Stonehenge, or the Pyramids. They often join in complex and irregular surfaces that would appear to be a nightmare for the stonemason. No mortar holds them together, yet they fit so perfectly you can’t slide a cigarette paper between them, and they have stood for hundreds (perhaps thousands) of years.
Sacsayhuaman
Sacsayhuaman was supposedly completed around 1508. Depending on who you listen to, it took a crew of 20,000 to 30,000 men working for 60 years.
However, one of the local historians: Gracilaso de la Vega, has no idea how the walls were built, which throws the 1508 completion date into question. De la Vega was born in 1530, and raised in the shadow of the walls of Sacsayhuaman, yet never heard any tales of how those walls were built. This seems highly unlikely, as at least of few of the 20,000 labourers who supposedly built the walls, must have survived to de la Vega’s time; and those who took part in this literally monumental undertaking would surely still be…
