SACSAYHUAMÁN: THE FORTRESS BUILT FROM 300-TON STONES
Episode 11 | History's Mysteries — Unexplained Structures & Places
In this Mystery episode we focus on Sacsayhuamán — the Inca fortress above Cusco whose walls contain stones weighing up to 300 tons, fitted together with millimeter precision, transported from quarries 32 kilometers away without the wheel, without iron tools, and without draft animals capable of such loads.
This episode covers the Tiwanaku and Inca traditions of precision stonework, Spanish colonial accounts of Inca construction methods, what experimental archaeology has demonstrated and hasn't yet demonstrated, the specific…
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