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Rebuilt Ruins, Vitrified Stone and Nazca's Giant Lines with Mike Collins — Part 3 of 3 | Classics Rotation
Mike Collins describes watching workers cut ancient blocks to fit a reconstruction in Cambodia and explains why reconstructed sites in Mexico and Belize can reflect modern guesses rather than original builds. If you want his and the host's take on vitrified stone, Nazca's lines, Caral and why Peru could rewrite world history, this closing part covers it.
The host compares studying Cusco's walls to reverse engineering and says she found a corner nub on a stone set in mortar. Mike says that at a Cambodian temple, construction crews with electric stone saws were cutting old blocks in half so…
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