This is How They Built the Inca Stone Walls | Ancient Architects
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More than a year ago I made a video about the famous Inca or Pre-Inca Stone walls of Peru and I presented the hypothesis that the reason they are made from irregular blocks of stone yet interlock so perfectly is because they are made by stacking cement bags.
Although I’ve presented the idea, many viewers have pointed out a number of problems with the hypothesis and I have to admit that geologically this idea doesn’t work as the rocks have been analysed and their quarries have been located. So I have since been searching for an alternative explanation and I believe I’ve found a researcher who does have the answer.
Thanks to a subscriber who sent me a link, I have read a paper by Helmut Tributsch for the SDRP Journal for Earth Sciences and Environmental Studies back in December 2017, titled ‘On the reddish, glittery mud the Inca used for perfecting their stone masonry’ and wow, I think he may have solved this age-old conundrum. In this video I will quote his paper and present Helmet’s ideas but I strongly urge you to download his paper by clicking the link: www.academia.edu/37497925/On_t...
Images are taken from the paper above, or marked as royalty free on Google Images, and are for educational purposes only.
The day you build a stone wall like the one they build, then I believe you found out how they did it.
Exactly
Say the same to all "alternative archeologist " and their theories. Say it loud!
I dont have the space land time money or materials. But i could
@@mikekasich836 i can teleport... i just wont show you!
Agree. You might want to add the requirement that these ivory-tower academics who claim they have "solved" the mystery build the same sized walls without the use of modern cranes, airplanes or any electric machinery and also quarry the huge rocks from far away transporting them over mountains, rivers and valleys. lol.
Viewers: Computer narrators are annoying.
Ancient Architects: Hold my beer.
Grinds my head in.
This is a real guy
He sounds like a preacher at times
this is a real person
Around the 5th minute I came to comments to see if anyone else was having trouble with the sing-songy up and down infection every 5 or 6 words.
It very unfortunate that this is happening as I will try to have to find the info on how the walls were built...someplace else if I can.
After spending a lifetime in construction I would put forth my own completely ordinary solution. Firstly, they quarried the stone using 220v Ginsu knives (like the turkey you carved last Thanksgiving). Then utilizing butterflies (which are very common by the way) which have been fortified with a strict diet of Espresso & Bee Pollen (vitamin B complex) they easily lifted these massive blocks & carried them across hill & dale & rivers (just like in Egypt) & gently placed them together. Next they used LSD to warp the atomic structure of the stone to mind-meld them together after which thousands of extremely bored peasants got together for the next 4,000 years (they lived a lot longer than us back then because they didn't eat fast food) & together (mostly because they were just bored) polished the stone work using sand & butter. I can prove it too -
I THINK I appreciate your sense of humour..Lol. Its not helping tho....We need answers! (joking)
Wow
Hahahahaha!!!!. Best explanation I've heard so far!. (You forgot one thing, the amount of shit involved in gluing these huge blocks together!).
@@ICU10 I thought you had that shit covered Bro . . . Ok then, I would like to buy a vowel & my final answer is (drum roll please) STICKY RICE!
@@jamesmaxdavissands 🤣
@Ancient Architects the reason we don't see this simple method being used now is because it doesn't work. How about you obtain some of those materials and show the world that you are right?
So, shouldn't be a problem to reproduce this simplistic technology and build a small example for us. Looming forward to your demonstration.
I saw another vid on this, and the guys claimed the Inkas had "since forgotten and lost tricks and methods", and since they did it so much they were experts at it. VERY SCIENTIFIC EH? LOL. Fact is, the Inkas could not have done it.
I know a guy named Michaelangelo made statues far more intricate and complicated than these interlocked blocks. I know he did it with a hammer and chisel. That does not mean that I can do what he did if I had a chisel and hammer.
@@furtim1 they statue that you're referring to is tiny tiny tiny compared to Machu Picchu. Do you understand what this fact implements? I doubt it because people now have the same IQ as their pet dog. And dogs do not understand size.
@@donniebaker5984 I doubt very much you are a real person, rather than a bot. Still, I will respond. Having seen both in person, I assure you that I do know the difference in size between some boulders at Machu Pichu or Tikal and the statues of ancient Greece or the Renaissance. However, this video isn't about the movement or placement of the materials, but the care and exactness of the carving. Carving a 10 ton block into a really well shaped blob is not any more miraculous than carving 3 ton block into a beautiful woman on a chariot of fire. It is just a matter of tools, skill, and time. So, what was your point? That they aren't the same mass? Yes. Agreed.
Well it's certainly a worthy hypothesis but I want to see this done in real time , and I want to know how they moved the stones while fitting them .
I came over to this video from a video of a guy moving 10t blocks only using "sticks and stones" and his bare hands in an attempt to build his own Stonehenge but mostly because he likes to move heavy objects like whole barns and massive stone blocks 😄
ruclips.net/video/E5pZ7uR6v8c/видео.html
Strictly hypothetical if you ask me they can't even figure out how they moved all those megalithic stones
they probably fused smaller rocks with the same technique, like, they made the "massive" rocks on the spot.
@@andreasneu302 I saw this video,too...what an amazingly simple method he employed
@@Manny_El_M1.1 we'd notice if they did that..it would be obvious.
Some of these stones are over 50 tons, that's over 200,000 pounds. How do you propose they moved these stones? Especially over mountainous terrain?
Please explain that.
They were all "Conan the Barbarian" guys 🙂
50 tons is just over 100.000 pounds ! But I still don't think itb was done this way, untill someone builds a bit of wall to prove it
I did stone work years ago for quite a few years, helped build homes, cutting/shaping all kinds of stone; and just from researching this particular site and also Pumu Punku, the only way this is possible; the rounded edges and beveling, the way they are formed and fit, would be if they were poured, or molded, or the molecular structure of the stone was able to be altered some how. All of the people who try to claim that monkeys with hammers (obviously exaggerating) just chiseled these stones, should have their degrees revoked. And not one time has anyone been able to re create any of this stuff with a “hammer and chisel”.
These blocks, their size aside, are nothing compared to stoneworks that we know for a fact were made with hammers and chisels, like Michaelangelo's statue of Moses. Is your position that one person with a chisel can make that statue in a few years, but thousands of people with chisels cannot make odd shaped blocks that fit together?
@@furtim1granite blocks carved with copper or stone chisels….sure bud.
As with most professionals in any profession, it holds also for archaeologists, most of them are dogmatic fools.
It must have been done by advanced atlanteans, or Atlantis survivors after the younger dryas global cataclysm who fled to peru and influenced the natives and showed them how to do it, Graham Hancock knows just listen to him
@@silverbackag9790 It's been done.
To prove this, you have to recreate it convincingly.
Yep, and until they have recreated it, it's just a theory
Researchers have at least recreated the paste and fused rocks together using the same chemical you'd find in the red mud. The rocks seal together with a similar smooth, glassy texture found in incan ruins.
It's known today, as part of popular tradition in andrean natives, you can mix the red mud with an additive extracted from local tree sap (containing oxalic acid). The oxalic acid makes the already potent naturally occurring acid 10x stronger.
@@wolfumz what's the paste called?
@@wolfumz I've been to these ruins. Many of those rocks are the size of an SUV yet the surfaces fit perfect. The Incas didn't even care if the stone was not square. In 2020, we cant even get the fender gap anywhere near as precise on that SUV using computer aided methods. Having acid paste is one thing but I challenge anyone to physically try to do this on rocks 1/10 the size.
@@Salty.Peasants I do not know the name of the paste. Several sources call the clay used “llàncac allpa”. I don't know a specific plant, but early chroniclers report a plant was mixed in to the red clay mortar. Oxalic acid is naturally occuring in many leafy plants, it is not a rare chemical. When it is mixed with sulfuric acid between stones, the oxalic acid decomposes, releases heat, and reacts with silicates in rocks. Heating the mixture increases the potency, and the reaction could have been self-heating.
You can free English language research on the topic by searching the author's name: "HELMUT TRIBUTSCH".
Early chroniclers of Incan construction said workers would lift and drop the same stone many times into place before it was fitted. No cranes, no pulleys, no ruler, no square, no beasts of burden, no iron tools. Hard to imagine.
If this is how its done, replicate it and then announce it. Why leave it at theory when this "simple" technology is available to test now.
Yes I was thinking it would be quite interesting to see if it can be reproduced. Something like that would need to be crowd funded though, and it would take quite a bit of money and human physical and mental power to get the job done, I'd think.
@@MrRecklessryan Yeah i suppose you're right.
Very good point by Daryl.
Sounds like a very easy experiment to replicate.
Trial and error, find a compound that will soften rock.
If the Inca could do it, then modern science labs should be able to do it too.
@@MrRecklessryan Yep, I totally agree with that statement.
One way to "soften" stone is to toss it into a volcano and wait till it melts.
That's the easy part.
The hard part is reaching into the molten magma with your bare hands and picking it back out again. (grin)
@@MrRecklessryan No you would have to fit at least 3 stones together. National Geographic and the Smithsonian could fund it, but they will not because they cannot do the precision stone fitting.
I don't need to even finish the video, I already know which way he's leaning. The same way everyone who follows without thinking leans
An absolutely fascinating documentary, especially because it all makes realistic sense of how these incredible stone structures were manufactured.
Thank you for sharing this information with us, as I will now go and search your channel for any theories on how the Egyptian pyramids were built - something which has always fascinated me since childhood.
I love your effort BUT, it seems to me that the first question to answer is, how they Quarried and moved each piece. Next question is what was the mechanism that allowed them to place and remove each piece possibly several times to ensure the tight fit.
I was a journeyman Finnish carpenter for many years and any multiangle joint would take several fit checks and they did not usually weight more than 2000 lbs. These builders were amazing.
Place and remove several times?
If you would be trying to duplicate the same construction with an ordinary housebrick you would have to do it at least fifty times
with todays tools. Then. Who knows howmany times.
Its looks like as though 'they' had heated the stone to a plastercene consistency and then moulded them into place.
Way too many unanswered questions that even the most experienced and knowleable stonemasons today have no idea
The blocks were not cut or carved. They were poured into place. They are concrete walls. So, no cutting, no transport and no fitting impossible angles together. Using formwork they poured each 'block' into place in situ. It's a simple answer that has been kept secret until now.
@@nephos100 Did you miss the bit where he explained which kinds of stone were used? Clearly there have been tests conducted to identify the type of stone in each block. And they certainly didn't grind feldspar, granite, etc into a fine paste, mix it with a binding agent, and then pour it into place.
@@HowlinWilf13 Didn't miss any bit. You are certainly right about that one thing: "And they didn't grind feldspar, granite, etc into a fine paste, mix it with a binding agent and then pour it into place." That's spot on. They certainly didn't do it that way.
@@nephos100 Nephos, It's an interesting thought but it is very easy test the rock to see if it is concrete, I hope someone has already done that. My understanding on that topic is that they know where the Stone quarry is.
However, making forms is another technology. I'm not saying that they did not have that technology But, I would think that the idea of conservation of energy ,time ,materials and craftsmen would create even greater pressure on the population.
Was a stone Mason's helper for many years and I've never seen such precision work. I've shaped tons of stone and am amazed at how good they were . Joint patterns that don't even matter or nesisary but always link up 🤔
Whenever I look at this finely jointed masonry I get the feeling they were showing off their skill. It's almost like they were leaving a message to future generations: "Lets see if you can figure out how we did this!".
@@martinharris5017 from what I've learned here about this subject is that its only on one side that everything looks perfect and behind the walls they used smaller fill in rocks.
@@ericabarca5871 You understand correctly: It's all about the appearance of perfection. Same is true for Great Pyramid in Egypt. Nevertheless it's still extraordinary workmanship considering what they had at their disposal. I've yet to see any experts today replicate either the technique or the style, and certainly not on this scale. AND it's survived hundreds of years of seismic disturbance.
@@martinharris5017 This video was quite compelling. Acids are very interesting. Apparently, Incans had abundant access to acid...
LOL
Seriously, it is definitely a compelling argument as to how the Incans did it.
@@thomassicard3733 I have many hundreds of old books in my home library. can't remember which one, it might be Exploration Fawcett possibly, but there is a story related about some Western explorers in the Brazillian region who found a very old bottle with a stopper in it. Thinking it might possibly be an alcoholic brew but not wanting to test it, they asked one of their porters, a local native, to take a swig. he refused to do so and protested that it wasn't for drinking. In the altercation the bottle was knocked over and the fluid spilled onto a rock. As the men watched in amazement, the surface of the rock began to soften.
Over the years I've read and heard numerous anecdotes about acidic substances being used to soften and sculpt rock, and it certainly explains much about the smooth, sculpted look of South American monuments and masonry.
I've always believed the claims had substance to them, and these latest findings appear to vindicate the stories and explain the material evidence.
Best explanation I've heard. Thank you!
I certainly like the sandbag hypothesis. You suggest the rocks have been analyzed and the quarries located and that destroys your hypothesis. On the contrary, like cement, you need ingredients and crushed granite from the quarry would be needed for the "mix" you use in the sandbags to form these walls. Why not try building one of these walls using cement bags and see if you come close.
Yes, but the problem with that theory is that they haven't located the remains of the bags. If they found that, then it would explain quite a lot.
"TO SUMMARIZE, I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT LOL"
Hahahahaha
Good video, but your sing song tone is really distracting.
It is so repetitive.
As interested as I was in the subject matter I bailed after 4 min. because of his annoying delivery.
I tried watching it with auto generated captioning turned on and the volume turned right down, but it is still annoying.
More than distracting. A-PHAHCKn-nnoying.
The reader just is not able to read aloud understanding at the same time the meaning or what he is reading. I am at 5th minute and there is still a "preparation" for genius idea. Already am thinking that the final will be disappointing (as usual for that type of "eureka") So why to suffer?
Best approach of an explanation I've heard so far. I agree.
I’ve seen a photo of something that looks like it may have been attached to the stone where the stumps are seen. The caption on the photo said “did the Inca know how to melt rock?” as the object looked very round and smooth without tool marks Basically it looked a slightly flattened spinning top, plum-bob or spindle with a short neck which looked like it had broken. Looking at the wall stones made me think of the photo I’d seen as the stumps on the blocks look like something was attached at some point.
It’s got me thinking the object might have been a lifting point for a rope pulley system? The melted or rather lack of tool marks noted in the photo may be from ropes wearing away at the rock as they pulled and lifted the stone into position. I can imagine a counterweight pulley system which could take the weight and allow the masons to perfect their fitting and craftsmanship. They may have even moved the stone from the quarry to site using a similar system replacing counter weight with manpower?
I'd really like to see somebody actually use such acid and fit a few large rocks together the way the megalith builders did
I asked the same question, they didn't like it!
It is not rock snd for this kind of thinking from the start , you'll never figure it out !
Yes go out and build stones
walls just like them then I'll believe them
I would like to see anyone, with any modern method cut these blocks. I’ll wait
And how did they transport those hugh rocks (100 metric tons and more) from 200Km away to the construcción place????
I thought it was the accent people were annoyed about. But they're right, that downward inflection at the end of EVERY sentence is ridiculous.
If that doesn't bother you enough listen to a few Aussies and Kiwis whose inflection goes up at the end of each sentence. It'll drive you nuts. Every sentence sounds like a question, not a statement.
It is just that it is the exact same inflection every time. It sound disingenuous, as if he isn't speaking about something he really has thoughts or feelings about. This just isn't how a normal person would talk normally about something.
After enough videos you kind of stop noticing it for the most part, but it can be distracting.
I thought I was the only one who finds the constant inflections annoying. I can't take it, lol. I find myself saying the statements out loud and realizing that it's not that hard to not emphasize every statement the same way every single time. Don't get me wrong I like the fun theories this channel produces, the lack of scientific evidence is an issue, but it is just someone pumping out content. Yet, the inflections are just so annoying I have never made it through an entire video. For me it keeps from being engaging.
Maybe it's a program that reads text? Anyway, fucking annoying.
lol 3 minutes in and it became so grating and i anticipated it at the end of every sentence, which is distracting as hell. takes serious willpower to listen to the end. had to scroll the comments to make sure it wasn't just me.
Great video, and sound deduction. The pictures showing the seams of the stone blocks was the most compelling to me.
Our ancients are very very smart...
Except that the Inca said they didn't build these walls. The Inca said the walls were already there when they arrived.
"Inca said" what the hell does that mean?
i believe it
@@charliedilltarde9881 Yes it is strange the Inca say they didnt build it....most people/civilizations who come across or take over an area will try to claim their accomplishments as theirs yet they dont.
You are totally right! Incas came after, you can observe in Machu picchu, the new inca construction with smaller stones is on top of the old one
Where inca says that?
Interesting and credible theory. As a small heads up, can you please work on doing the audio in a more conversational tone. Your presenting tone has an annoying repetitive rise in a tone at the end of each and every sentence which grates after five minutes of it and distracts from your good work and research you are presenting. I mention this, as it will improve the watchability of your videos.
Do not watch. I’m not going to anymore
Yes, his speaking tone is very annoying. I shut it off and read the captions. Ugh.
I’m sick and tired of these LImey Queerdos Narrating
Sounds like he's weighing options. THIS way or THAT way, see-saw, up and down. Or he's bored that he has to read this text that he's heard a million times.
What?! I’m no geologist by any stretch but it is kind of silly to think that Inca’s made the blocks out of some kind of concrete.
I love the effort to come up with a theory for the building techniques. Im not convinced but it is a cool idea. I wonder if this idea makes any sense when applied to all the other sites in locations in India, Egypt, Easter island, etc that all show have this type of polygonal masonry.
They can't do their theory even with brick sized stones so what does that tell you.
Yeah I am not convinced either, like how did they cut the stone with other stone? How they transport the stones? How did they lift and set them? This theory is full is holes
@@James-to7pi carbon dating from substances found inside the pyramids confirm that they are about 5000 years old, which is actually older than zahi hawass would like them to be, but not even close to 12000 years. thats just stupid.
Exactly. I wish I was not so obsessed with this topic in general. it is going on forever, but no credible explanations, or restrictions on information. Its so obvious something RADICAL was afoot everywhere for millenia(ago and lasted for). i'm getting tired of hearing the same ol' shizz, basically. Maybe I must just make peace with the fact that as brilliant and as advanced as our technology is we may never know the answers. So far, its moving that way. NEVER know. Imagine that? So impossibly advanced those marvels of past civilisations were, that we may never know their secrets. Scary stuff. Those builders all over the planet I think were here 100's of thousands of years ago. So long ago we have zero reference for where to start. Millions of years ago perhaps. All starting to look like something like this. Ancient ancient ancient ancient civilisations that only left these marvels of their civilisations out of the fact that they needed them for whatever reason. We got no clue at all. The research by us, tells us this. We are literally clueless. Imagine who these people were? Scary stuff. Time to get our heads out of our....(u know what I mean).
I'm going to end every sentence on this video like I'm falling off a cliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiif
foot lettuce
....OR, I'm Putting my self to sleep. With every word. And every sentence. That doesn't end. When I end the sentence.
These blocks are from the original BC Lego Company . Fred Flintstone was the foreman...
Yaba Daba Doooo…...
Andy Body that is why the dark ages lasted so long ..not about Fred but all about you
LOL
That's the best explanation I've heard, and it makes a lot of sense.
Science strikes again!
This has to be the answer. Great job putting a spotlight on this information Thank you!
Well then, let’s see him replicate some stones into a wall to prove his theory.
It’s one thing to boast your theory, but it’s another to prove it!
EXACTLY but wouldnt it take 20 yrs maybe more to work?
@@kravmaga7070 You can estimate this. First you calculate a "pseudo-time" for the acid paste. The lab dissolution rate of granite at pH 1 is ~ 1*10^(-10) mol rock/m^2 second (and I am including a little added heat of reaction). A mol of granite is someplace around 80-100 grams. Pretend the rock surface is 1 square meter. A wet paste of AMD clay and crushed pyrite spread over the surface will dissolve (if I did the math right) 1*10^(-8) grams per second. To get any progress you need to dissolve at least a gram. So you will need 10^8 seconds which is about 3 years (pseudo-time). Coincidentally, this is about how fast scientists have said each rock could take to shape by hand alone (the larger ones). Using a "neutral wet paste", the pseudo-time is 30 years. So, it would speed them up about 10x. So, instead of 3 years (assuming that the estimated hand tooling time and "neutral paste" time are the same), it would take 0.3 years - or about 4 months for a larger stone. Some other interesting things. Molten gold looks like any other molten metal. But pyrite slurry looks like liquid gold. Dry crushed pyrite can be mistaken for bitumen in small amounts - it's black and smells like sulfur if it is fresh. Of course, its very heavy though. This process would be rather dangerous and the paste would have to be removed from the rock when finished. Without great skill - folks would get hurt. It would leave hematite (red) and black pyrite behind as a residue (Fe and S). It could also cause some toxic waste problems. The proof is in doing it - but there is some merit to this theory - unlike most of the others I have heard. Thing is, getting AMD clay is kinda hard. You can make it, but I'm not gonna be that guy.
Steve J. He looks a little old to be doing any stone masonry work but I can tell you. How they did it. Just like the pharaohs in Egypt’s pyramids slave labor in fear for their lives can do astonishing things
@@Justthemow The Egyptians didn't use slave labour to build the pyramids.
boris johnson I don’t even know what to say to this seriously you must just be a complete moron.
Excuse me if this has been said before, I’m a believer but,
“Now all we need is a video demonstration so I can get to building my new retaining wall.
Gabions mate. Put crap rubble in the middle - hardcore and rubble and the nice stuff on the outside. Works a treat.ruclips.net/video/gmiBY9zmC08/видео.html
Sign me up as a subscriber, I'd like a wall myself - though I'll probably scale it down.
According to the Inca, they did not build these stone walls. Inca said that they were built by "those who came before us".
I'm with you. I believe that these civilizations found these structures when they migrate into these areas. The Incas, could not have created such huge megaliths.
No they didn't. You just heard that on Ancient Aliens.
@@plaguemouse5549 I think he is referring to the fact that, by the time the Spanish arrived in numbers, the civilization was already in decline and the newer structures were sloppy by comparison to the older ones. You can see this for yourself if you go there. Beautiful stonework supporting rather haphazard rock and mortar work.
Well it definitely wasn't the people that came AFTER THEM!!??🖕
The Inca literally believed they were the first civilization to ever exist and they killed anyone that contested that.
They would never say "someone was here building our stuff before us", and they have never said that.
What did happen was that when Inca met anyone civilization that was clearly older than them they would claim that the locals said they didn't build their cities, someone before them did. Because then the Inca could claim that older Inca or Inca gods built the cities that were older than them.
It's so unpopular to say that the Incas just used acid plus hard work. I am glad you have shared this for all the people who think aliens and big foot made these walls with magic.
No dragons?
Not aliens etc possible machinery of unknown design and fuel used.
Also I would like to know how long it takes to process the huge blocks in this way, how long does it take for the acid compound mentioned to achieve the effect on display in sites worldwide of remarkably similar construction?
@@timothyjohnfarr6544 the real question is- were all these stones carved in place out of an outcropping? then did the carvings cause breaks in the lines they carved? So, let's disassemble a wall, or will it even separate?
In summary ... we still have no idea how these walls were fitted or put into place.
That's why it's called a theory. One side actually tries to prove a way it could have been done, the other side knows exactly how it was done, aliens
Exactly. No idea whatsoever.
Thanks, saved me 19 mins
Yes, but we MAY be one step closer to understanding how it was done. ...maybe those mentioned protrusions are a hint as to how they were placed and/or transported. I sure like this line of logic a LOT better than aliens or whatever, BUT since we haven't definitively solved all of these world-wide architectural mysteries, I'm gonna listen to all of the theories; even Aliens! I'll also say, "This one is pleasing my brain".
The stones are actually a form of concrete that’s poured into a mold giving them the exact shape they needed.
Holy fuck, I thought the comments were being rude. But he really has the delivery of a Fable salesman.
Oh stop it ... been laughing for weeks..
I’ve considered the idea that they might have split the stones using a series of wedges drilled into the rock face in a line and then hammered to split the rock, I would bet we’ve all seen this done before if you are at all interested in this topic. However they had to have been masters at it to be able to make the corners so sharp and strait. When the splitting of the rock is completed the first few inches where the wedges went into the rock would be carved off and the bulbous shape is created and then the cracks could be rejoined to make the seamless connection we have today.
You see the large flat "temple" floors ..most of the building blocks are flat on the bottom. Step one: Spread your "paste" and pyrite over that floor and take larger blocks and slide them slowly to "burn" them flat
I think you're perfectly Correct how possibly it was done! 😊❤
However the same technique may Not apply to bricks and stones in the WALL!!!!😮😮😮😢😢😢😅😅😅😊❤
I am afraid the voice inflection of the narrator makes this video impossible to watch. Sorry.
it's bad; however, the information is useful and gives a practical answer to something I've been wondering about for a while. Not only is the delivery flat, it could easily be cut down to three or four minutes.
The sound gives new meaning to monotone , please do not take up a second hobby in musical arts a 3-4 note song would not be pleasant either . great subject matter, but feels like my biology teachers class all over , i fell asleep in there sometimes also
You are so right. This man should listen to himself and then shut up ever after...
i agree...it is irritating as fuck...i know this dude isnt married.
I couldn't agree more. See comment above... Ted Watson
i love your channel for relentlessly going after these questions without blindly believing "classic" theories but also not explaining everything with aliens.
How much are the aliens paying you
This is an interesting and well thought out video. I would say a good step towards figuring out if this could work would be to toss a rock of this quartzite into a bucket full of the acid concentration and see what happens. Does it soften? Does it melt or dissolve?
I'm not so sure this controlled softening could be done in practice, as the window of time would be very small that one would have to work the stone before the reaction was done. Also, if the acid was so potent as to fully melt the rock, would the rock not become completely irregular? And wouldn't it stick together like glue so that removing a rock would pull a chunk out of another?
For sure I'm a sceptic, but I do think it has merit. Needs to be tried.
Maybe try it with a more potent acid available today just to give it a go and go backwards from there? Once it's been figured out that it is possible, see if the acid composition of the slurry locally available could even work.
It is pretty amazing, sometimes, how simple explanations and actual labor can solve a problem.
It's certainly an good theory, but my question is how did they move 100-200-300 ton stones across the the sacred valley from the quarry up the side of a mountain to Machu Picchu? I'll stick with the pre Incan lost civilization that had a technology far more advanced that even today's masonry abilities. In some place the quarries were 35 or more Kilometers away.
You may try to replicate a wall in a small scale, to show how it's done!!
@Steve Warlee The proper term is "soilcrete" or "dirtcrete", and it was used to build roads in the USA. low-percentage cement mixed with local soils, a relatively small amount of water when compared to concrete, and compacted really well. You don't have to believe me, you can search on youtube by yourself. Also known as "rammed earth".
Here's are videos, as proof: "Paving with Soil Cement (1962)" and "Soil Stabilization with Cement (1959)". RUclips codes are: *DkbMGm44xYc* , *5ATbLDLtwCs* .
@Steve Warlee Thanks! The people who explain those things often explain them for the people who already know lots of things, and just need to tie the loose ends, or people who are going to do research by themselves. Those topics would get a lot more believable if they used real-life mainstream-approved techniques and technologies which were already in use for many years. I think a channel focused on categorizing information strategically so people can understand how the "conspiracies" are a lot less "theories" and a lot more "fact", would have a lot of success. But someone needs to put in the work, for that to become reality.
@Steve Warlee There is such a thing as ash cement, or cement made from ash, so by simply saving up that ash, they could make such bricks.
@Steve Warlee No, I'm talking something which is supported by science. Ash can be processed into cement. It might not be comparable with modern cement, or even with limestone, in terms of cement properties, but there's also the mainstream process of making highways out of cement and soil/dirt.
Here's a video you can watch, to see the exact process for ash-cement: "Primitive Technology: Wood Ash Cement" by "Primitive Technology" on RUclips. Video ID code: *DP0t2MmOMEA*
And here are two videos for mixing soil and cement, to make highways: "Paving with Soil Cement (1962)" and "Soil Stabilization with Cement (1959)". RUclips codes are: *DkbMGm44xYc* , *5ATbLDLtwCs* . The process is similar to that for rammed earth, which is a soil-cement mixture which is compacted using a flat weight on a handle. The google-able term is "manual concrete compactor".
@Steve Warlee First of all, checking back the comments, to see if I missed something, your comment saying "I suppose they had a flyash plant" didn't get into my noitifications. Secondly, although flyash a kind of cement, most biomass ash can be turned into a kind of cement, from my knowledge, not just the flyash component, if properly separated.
The most interesting aspect of the ancient builders is the SIZE and WEIGHT of the stones and how they managed to move and construct them.
There is no record of these huge stones being moved. Just the abandoned quarries where the material came from. The materials were not moved in large blocks, it was moved by carts in pebble/powder/aggregate sized pieces. Even wiith today's technology we don't build dams with hunks of rocks. Instead we use small sized aggregates mixed together called concrete. These people knew how to make a homogeneous mix of quarried material and built these structures with that. I do respect your respect of how hard they must have worked to make all this happen.
@@K3Flyguy How do you know this?
@@K3Flyguy your explanation implies that you know how these were constructed but, let's be honest - nobody really knows for sure how these were constructed, if they did, this technology would be in use all over the modern world. I've read explanations similar to yours that also describe how the ancient builders may have had some kind of stone-melting technology, levitation technology as well as sound frequency technology to help shape and move the stones, but quite honestly, you, me, and archaeologists don't have the answers yet. Thanks for your comment
@@K3Flyguy fails to explain why they mainly only finished the front.
@@bipolarjay why do you have to write size and weight in all caps? It makes you seem less intelligent and too emotional. No offense meant but it will make people who read your comment look at it negatively, and reply thus.
Well researched and good description of these walls. Less inclined to think about ancient aliens after this.
One thing not noted, but readily apparent when you visit the sites is that the fine stone work was only done in a small section of the site. That area generally attributed to the Royal section or the more sacred areas. as you progressed further away the stonework becomes less " Worked " and the gaps start to show up, It's still remarkable work but not nearly done with the same detail.
Sounds pretty simple. OK, let's DO IT!
I like your can-do attitude👍
In traveling around Machu Picchu and Ollantaytambo, looking up at the mountains you see huge square depressions cut out of the mountain faces which match the size of the boulders creating these gigantic walls . . . and you wonder, how in the world did they do that⁉️
easy
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@@placebogazebo9671 All it takes is gravity and time
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The valley was flooded they hooked it right to a floating barge
@@placebogazebo9671 Good examples are shown if you watch films about the unfinished obelisks in egypt.
Protrusions were commonly used to install large blocks of stone. They add holding points for ropes to handle the blocks. Usually these protrusions were removed after installing, but not always
Vincent Lee actually figured it out how they obtained the rocks in the quarries, how they were transported to the site-temple, and how they were perfected to fit tightly using scribs.
To the day, is the best theory and approach, from an architect/engineer point of view as Lee is. Any other theory including plants, acids and whatnot, are edging in superstitious and ''magic thinking'' mentality.
Great video! Fascinating. I'd love to see some chemists, stone masons and geologist get together and try to recreate this process to build a stone wall.
The best artisans/craftsmen always know just how many cigarettes to smoke between stages of the work...
;-)
Yeh, nice photos of the great stone walls.
But absolut nothing more than speculation around how it was buildt.
I think that is something ewerybody with a camera and fantasy can do
Me too. Sounds doable.
Well Brian Braden. I think you made a wicked statement. The video makes it all sound simple . but no one will take up your challenge as the professionals no it can't be done
Don't to forget to hire some movers!
Fine research Matt, but many questions remain:
1. How deep into this hard stone does the stated chemical process work? Is it more than surface corrosion/softening, because these stones appear softened and molded to significant depths.
2. What do you have to say about the Inca themselves reporting that the walls were already present when they arrived?
3. Nagging problem of how such massive stones were transported long distances without advanced technology.
4. What to make of the very obvious distinctions in building styles--sophisticated and crude--often right on top of one another for no apparent reason.
-Cheers!
Add 5. who did tell egypt about this method before they even thought about pyramids.
@@maksymilianzienkiewicz1776 right I thought of that after posting. Uncanny resemblances in building stores across oceans. Matt mentioned it in passing, but didn't factor it into the analysis.
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Add 6. ...and the civilisation on Easter Island?
@@frosty6960 Sounds like you have direct experience with or knowledge of the process described in the video. This concurs with my own doubts just based upon years of house building and working with various materials. Once corrosion sets in, like you say it's very difficult to control or stop the process without introducing a neutralizing agent--say baking soda on car battery terminals. Very hard to do with a 10 ton rock covering up your good work! So, I have serious doubts about this theory for this and other reasons mentioned. Cheers!
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Combine physics and chemistry
These volcanic rocks are formed in conditions of intense heat and pressure. I grasp how acidification could possibly soften a thin layer of rock that is in contact with the mud, but even if ample depth of softening were accomplished that would cause a state of dissolution of the rock material akin to accelerated weathering. What I can't envision is how the rock material reconstitutes itself without intense heat and pressure, that seems to violate the process of entropy. A solely chemical process seems unlikely though I agree a technique of dissolution and reconstitution to be the best explanation to this intriguing enigma!
Excellent Video........I have watched it multiple times. I completely agree with this idea of how it was built. I am calling the process of using chemical mixer to soften stone "Chemical Carving Technique" (CCT). This process could also have been used for the holes that were drilled in blocks for the Great Pyramids. They could have used CCT for both a lubricate and to soften stone as they drilled the hole. I am going to try this myself and see how it works.
Good luck with that! Guess it did not work as you have not posted a follow-up?
Holy shoot! 30 second version. They dissolved the rock with acid from mining tailings. You're Welcome.
Interesting, if only we could see it tested
THE INCA THEMSELVES TOLD ALL THEY DID NOT I REPEAT (DID NOT) BUILD THESE everything other than this is a lie (FACT)
@@aununally4274 - I won't argue your point, but will simply add; well someone built them.
In this video it was a question of "HOW," not "WHO."
@@aununally4274 Machu Pichu was definitely an Inca construction from a to z
@@aununally4274 I have read several of the Chronicles, some of them in the original medieval Spanish. The Inca never said any such thing. They said that they didn't build Piq'illacta (which the Huari built) or Puma Punq'u (which the Tiahuanacu built), but they told the Spanish which Inca built which megalithic site. Ollantaytambo and Quito were still under construction when the Spanish barbarians arrived, for the gods' sake!
I don't know where that lie originated, but it's utter bullshit.
AA: presents evidence that supports the science behind chemical moulding.
Everyone: build the wall.
Also everyone: "qUiTe TaLkInG LiKe tHAt!..."
That got voted out with the grand wizard in chief
@@garyvalencia4379 Biden eulogized a former grand wizard. Calling him a friend and mentor.
Evidence means more than a paper in applicated science. To prove any hypothesis you need to recreate the exact output. And then you have another problema to solve: transportation and walls built in mirror fashion(one opposite to the other).
@Bronski Turboski as a Man of science I can say without a doubt: I dont know. But I do know that any theory must and need to be empirically proved. And beyond any atomization. In this case it needs to fit un the global context.
Having been to Peru and seen some of the walls that the Spanish attempted to dismantle, the wall blocks are not only fit together in the way you see, but also with lock/key and channel/slides which lock them together front to back as well as side to side. It was mind boggling to see just how complex the wall structures are. This was in the Church which was the Incan Sun Temple in Cusco
I'm just glad as hell you didn't come close to mentioning aliens and Giorgio!!!
Cool theory!
Love to see someone try to replicate this method
Spoiler alert no one has because its theoretical nonsense.
Me too,talk is cheap!
Agree, just a theory.
Never heard anyone has tried this ever in modern times. How were they able to move this highly acidic material from modern Ecuador to Chile, wherever you find those colossal stones with perfect joints, of course it's not only Sacsayhuaman. Also, never read either anyone has ever moved those monster rocks from their location to confirm how they fit with side rocks. How did they come up with essentially a 3D free form model to chisel out of rock, and lift to a perfect fit, that remains the question.
I was thinking the same thing, seems like it would be easy to replicate.
Don' hold your breath...
Interesting, but it needs to be tested, and it still doesn't explain how the giant stones were moved from the quarry and put in place.
I wonder if there is a demonstration of this theory being planned?
True dat.. It seems these were an awesome constructions like art work done by the ancient giants aka Nephilim..
aliens
@@hih-meh1344 there's no Giants according to the Bible measurements Goliath was only about 10 to 12 ft tall if that he'll the average man back then was only five foot six and we have basketball players that are 8 feet and world record holder 8 feet 11
It's ALL Geo-polymer.....it has to be. Can you imagine cutting each one of those megalithic boulders/bricks, to fit EVERY conceivable angle perfectly to fit together. Never would happen, the mason would have killed himself before he finished 10 blocks, becaus eit would have taken him 1,000 tries to get 10 as perfect as these were made. Forms had to of been used, the geo-polymer was mixed, a thin dissolvable material along with (now this acid mud) was placed between adjoining boulders, the polymer was poured, the forms were removed when it was still malleable, to round the edges and texture the surface. Now you're not moving impossible loads, but sacks of pulverized material and mixing on sight. It's how the great pyramid was built as well. I don't care if they tested the megalithic boulders and confirmed it's solid rock....they're wrong & need better equipment or they're LYING and we're ALL just dealing with ANOTHER Pseudo-Science Fraud that been passed down like one of Man's Religions. You have to think about these topics in a way that asks the question, "How would YOU Replicate what was built here?" and then you figure it out, if tasked...what would be your steps. What tools would you use today and then you'll find the answer. The Inca's didn't build the Megalithic portion or precision cut stones or precision drilled holes at these sites....That was done by the Ancient Megalithic Builders that employed the Polygonal Geo-polymer masonry engineering ALL over the World...On just about every continent you can find their work, from Easter Island to New Zealand to Japan and the list goes on. Since Mainstream Academia (Archaeology) refuses to connect the dots on Polygonal construction throughout the World, it simply translates as EVIDENCE as to their blatant disregard for TRUTH/Science & is PROOF of their Corruption or at the very least, limited intelligence. They're all pretty smart, so I'm going to vote for CORRUPTION...Indoctrination can also be an excuse, BUT this dumb Pollack armchair Warrior can figure it out, so should EVERYONE else. This is just more Pseudo-Science that has infested every sector of our Modern day Society of Dogmas'....Archaeology/Megaliths/Origin of Species all fit nicely with all the others....i.e..
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Good work amending your description as facts were presented to challenge it!
I'd love to see a video of this chemical reaction and how it can help shape / soften rock edges - maybe even demonstrating two rock faces being pushed together? Think that would get a lot of views and give us practical evidence of it.
If they can replicate the more complex wall structures at scale we’ll start talking.
Without cranes that can lift more than 1200 tons.
only if you volunteer to be a labourer
The people who find accents other than their own incomprehensible or intolerable also seem to be those who learned nothing from this brilliant demonstration of how the wall-builders used observational science and engineering to solve problems we still face today (e.g., architecture in earthquake zones). Their loss.
Thank You for this interesting video. Now I’m looking for some reasonable hypothesis too for the large stairs on some Machu Pichu artifacts.
If I was to recreate these walls I would start with one large block and carve this shapes of the stones into the surface.
Eliminates all the impossible parts of the puzzle.
Thank you.
Remember: The "testimony of the historic chroniclers" regarding acidic paste/mortar, large teams of diligent workers, and remarkable patience pertains only to the latter, cruder, upper parts of the structures. No one witnessed how the lower, perfectly-fit parts were constructed. This was done -- no one knows -- but maybe 1,000 years earlier.
its the same bulldust as before , scientist trying to solve without actually knowing , there is no chemical reaction in 21st century chemistry knowledge that actually explains nor can be reproduced ... how many times did the narator , use the words theory , would ,should could , they still have zero clue , but say many words to justify their doctrates and PHD's .. we have lost the high tech that produced moulded melted stonework without fusion or the remains of stonework with precision cuts and lines that we can only reproduce with industrial diamond drilling and these muppets want to explain it was just patience and done with coarse to fine sand and polished with human hair over time ,,lol . From the "trumpets "of Jericho and Arc of the Covenant to the ancient Egyptians to the Tibetans and south American there are still living stories of the use of Vibration cones/cannons/trumpets to lift large stones , at least we have had success in in using this tech today but in its infancy we can only lift what we could by hand
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In other words...Horsesh¡t.
Made before the flood.
Did you actually watch the video
Even more absurd than his “concrete in bags” hypothesis. If he is correct then let him demonstrate the technique. His sing-song delivery is annoying.
Irritating more like it
..maybe computer generated....hard to tell on YT today.
@@Firebrand55 - no computer generated voiceover could be that horrible. I have pity for anyone that knows him in person.
@Vadim VeeVoit your full of crap
@Vadim VeeVoit Dude if you can replicate these walls you will be rich, imagine all the rich snobs that would adore a stone fireplace in this style. You should look into the use of acids in repositioned stones like in the article. Perhaps just use sulfuric acid instead.
It seems the stones were slid back and forth on underlying and adjacent stones till it ground to perfect fit. The filler on the back sides is the remnants of the ground stone and what was also used to make the blocks movable against each other. one would only need to move the stones back and forth an inch or so keeping the back side slightly elevated for a perfect front side fit. My two sense.
I think or hope you mean two cents.
@3:59
Amazing seeing the same blocks in Puru as Egypt
Compelling but until I see a demo with this method I’m not completely sold.
How could you work with such a caustic material without burns on the skin?
How do you stop the reaction once the stones are fitting properly in areas which aren’t accessible?
Too many new questions...
All those questions are valid... but consider that if the above process is valid, the site wouldn't be inhabited while under construction. the historical account confirms a very large workforce working on this full time. I wish it included which construction site he observed this process was in use at and if that site was ever actually completed or inhabited. I'm also wondering if the historical account wasn't from observing Inca doing this to the walls of pre-Inca construction out of maintenance of the existing pre-Inca construction. because the smooth scorched fronts and smooth fit lines on only the exposed surface of the wall could indicate an example of decades or hundreds of years of acid washing the pre-Inca walls for aesthetic, sanitation, remove or prevent organic material like plants from building up on the walls, beautification (?) perhaps the acid wash also provided a temporary look/effect/appearance that the Inca liked(?)... etc I don't know but it's an extension to the described process up above. I'm going to see if I can make it through the paper itself and find out how much research was performed and confirmed with real-world testing... to the author and Anci-Arch credit, the investigation and research isn't complete on this but this paper provides a valid amount of in-depth theory, testing, and progress to justify that something be published about their findings up to this point. it will or has instigated or inspired more people to look into it further, but at where they are now instead of from scratch like it would have been without its publication.
Its at least doing better than "stone pounders". A little.
I was thinking same
Once the acid has become dilute enough by the process its acidity weakens and the chemical reaction stops.
There are a lot of comments on here about acids and melting, acids that erode silica substances are not necessarily immediately corrosive to human skin. And, molten rock is a different process to acid erosion.
You have to consider they moved and placed those stones multiple times to effectively match the bottoms to the ones above. You dont lift tons of stone quicky so you can adjust your cuts to make them fit. I wonder if we really will ever know...
It will never cease to amaze me that people are so unwilling to believe that a lot of people might work very hard to do something using methods available to them. But no. Many demand that it be a secret, lost civilization using some forgotten, high technology. It must be something *amazing!* We need more people to embrace the mundane and common, the readily available things within reach of the ancient peoples. We need to remember that they had essentially the same brains we had. If we put ourselves into their place, and look at what they had, we can figure it out without sonic waves, psychic powers, ancient Atlanteans, or Aliens.
There is the notion that harmonic vibration of the stones would wear away the fitted surfaces. So, only a rough fit would suffice on the inner surfaces and the acidic mud on the faces would soften those surfaces with the vibrations speeding up any hand fitting.
Just a thought as stone cutting by high frequency water tools is pretty well understood now.
"This is How They Built the Inca Stone Walls" quite a claim AA yet nobody ever replicated it yet!
these days i laugh at the mainstream version of how these are constructed for the exact same reason. Until i see someone complete even a small structure that fits as well as these and egyptian blocks i will keep my mind open to all possible methods.
@@N3onDr1v3 what other possible methods are there that are not mainstream theories?
I was slowly losing my mind with how the granite could be cut, and you have no idea how important this video was to me! Thank you so much for putting this together, you just earned a subscriber and avid watcher.
This is the most logical explanation offered so far. It seems reasonable.
Very interesting and informative, plays to the imagination. Thank you.
neglects to "prove" some small details like how they cut, extracted, transported, lifted , and precisely placed the megaliths
Exactly.
ya if you want to nit pick
Local guides say that the stones were lifted and placed many times while sanding down to make the perfect fit. Some have those little knobs to lift the rocks. Its really hard to believe tbh
Ive been there many times and there are some HUGE rocks
@@xacob3 "local guides" are spewing nonsense....nobody on this Earth knows who, when, why, or how megalithic structures all over the Earth were built...All we know for sure is that whoever did it understood a technology that we do not.
@@fudgedogbannanaYou're funny.
Yeah, if you'd actually visited these places and seen these stones up close you'd know this theory doesn't add up. The stones are 3D interlocked - the entire stone blocks have been moulded/melted/liquidified to fit them into place. It's not just the edges you see. It also does not explain the vitified surfaces. There's only so much you can ascertain from a picture. Visit these places.
Agreed. I live here and can attest to that fact. The stones just don't fit at angles and recede at 90 degree angles, but I have noticed that the sides have different irregular sloped angles from front to back. This is something I don't think any modern mason can do today without putting in a HUGE amount of work.
Good analysis. I just got back from visiting many of these walls in Peru. Each joining surface is 3 dimensional. For example, the lower one may have a concave surface while the upper one has an exact matching convex surface. Still, amazing work.
Since these walls have survived in a highly seismic area, they were probably built this way for stability. This is what the survivors of the Incas civilization believe.
the narrator voice is not suitable for this documentary
you're still too kind
I couldn't watch past four minutes
Agree... If this is a 1 man channel, then i would understand that this guy probably dont want to pay people to narrate his videos... Computer/TTS voices are usually not a better alternative - but there are at least a few REALLY good ones... If he already writes down the narration to these videos, then it would actually require LESS work...
He's got a medical condition and so splices short clips of his own commentary. He's unable to do long continuous speech. He explained it in comments some time ago.
Yeah, let's strangle the messenger before he educates us!
One day some Alien dude will come forward, ring the bell and say “Times up so booby prize for you for not guessing right.” Then he’ll map the blocks size and shape in his mind, cut the odd shapes with the laser from his finger and levitate them into place. Then he’ll crack open a beer and say. “Whatcha reckon about that?”
You know nobody's right all the time, but most people will never admit it. This is why I appreciate you and your channel so much. In a world that's more and more increasingly filled with people subscribing to delusions and expecting everybody else to go along with it, here it's a person who subscribes to the truth! I'm with you my friend thank you.
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I respect your honesty, as you learn, so do we. Thank you.
I believe the stones were shaped via the hard labor of many who were given a binary option of shaping rocks every day for long hours or being forced to listen to this narrator every day. It's clear everyone would have chosen stone grinding over the latter. With the obvious exception of the deaf...
Chrystal clear
You are, well... right.
This would make a good "spy tell me everything" threat, they would sing like a canary after a few hours. At least we got 3 or 4 adds to break up the monotony. Halfway through, I figured the worst was over so why not continue. Aside from the tone, it was interesting though.
I still have a question. If the rocks are molten, why aren't they fused together?
And it still leaves the riddle of how blocks of more than 100 tons could be moved from one place to another.
The moving part is at least imaginable, the fit-up is astounding.
A few ideas on how such rocks could be moved with reasonable man power:
1) "walk them" like legend suggested the large statues on Easter Island were moved, a method that has been demonstrated with only a couple dozen people and no extreme effort.
2) cut blocks all with a similar square cross-section (random length ok) and roll them on a wooden saw-tooth 'road' specifically designed for a given square size, if it's too much to build a miles long road of that sorts then they could roll say 10 or 20 at a time, pause to pick up the wood section behind and place in front and do it again. Heavy square blocks can be rolled quite easily if the saw tooth pattern is correct.
3) have you ever seen several men struggle with a heavy refirgerator and then see ONE man easily 'walk it' by tilting up on one edge and rocking-stepping it forward?
4) quarry them cylindrical enough to roll them on a hard packed surface and square them on site.
@@Mrbfgray Thanks, Bo.
I also have read about one idea that, at least in Egypt, has worked. Use Archimedes' principle. That is, dig a canal, and make floaters around the blocks. In water such blocks are lighter due to their buoyancy, and the floaters could increase that so much, that they float.
You could also use buoyancy to put them in place. That is, I think, how the pyramids were built.
This method presupposes the availability of lots of water. That in itself shows that the pyramids were build at a time when there was a lot of water in Egypt. And that makes the pyramids much, much older than claimed by the archaeologists.
I think that in the past the earth was tilted, and had a different equator. This is important, because the huge structures we see are aligned. They were probably all built within and before the last ice-age. Only around the equator there would be no ice, and plenty of water. That is why we see all of those anciend huge structures aligned along the old equator.
It does not necessarily require a huge impact of a comet or something else for the axis of the earth to tilt in a different direction, because with so many planets around the movement of the earth around its axis is chaotic. So, from time to time the axis of the earth shifts all by its own. The moon in particular keeps this from happening very often. But it DOES sometimes, and very rarely happen. It follows from the laws of physics directly, as we know them now.
In fact, there is one story in the Bible that corroborates this. It says something like that the stars and the sun stood still for 3 days.
They aren't molten, stone hammers leave behind physical marks that can be easily identifiable, that's why scholars are sure, unlike this ignorant.
Is also the reason we can differentiate between pre- and post-conquest Inca-stile ashlar work, you see in instances ashlar architecture continued to be employed during the very very early colony of the central Andes region (the territory of the Inca Empire) but with the only difference they used hard metal tools (such as steel or iron) leaving behind very distinctive marks on the ashlar work, such is case in some walls of Chinchero, from afar indistinguishable but upon closer examination both pre- and post-conquest workers leave behind distinctive marks on their work.
@@konradswart4069 NO WAY the stars stood still for 3 days, that's ridiculous, how do you stop earths rotation and restart it without astronomical impacts, like getting hit by mars twice in exactly the opposite fashion, such a hit would completely destroy the planet. The Bible is full of shit. You are falling for some silly nonsense here but that's the worst of it.
Good job and agree this is the best theory yet. Especially when someone from the area related the process.
Other than patiently working with the tools shown and mentioned in this video, I think the only other plausible theory is they worked the stone to very small tolerances, then layered in small grit that would sand the stone, then lay on one stone, rubbing it back and forth until it wore away to a perfect fit. Highly labor intensive either way.
I think that the stone blocks would have been to big to be moved by man power. To day we would need a crane and wire slings with SWl 3o tons or more,The builders did not have steel wire slings.😢😢
a more plausible and realistic theory is - aliens came from outer space and used lasers to cut the stones, and used flying saucers to transport the stones, in return for apples and oranges.
*Pre Inca
Change my mind lol
Watch and let me know what you think! :)
@@AncientArchitects
halfway through, will let ya know
but i think its pretty coincidental that machu pichu means ancient mountain, and doubt you could give the same explanation for the nearby H blocks as the polygonal walls
DaGameFace happy for them to be Inca or Pre-Inca, this video just discusses a hypothesis of how they could be made. Now just need to find more dating evidence. 👍
@@AncientArchitects okay you win again, I didn't expect to but will concede that the Inca were almost certainly capable of building at least some of the polygonal walls.
A few unanswered questions that still bug me:
1 the cone heads, and head binding to mimic them (perhaps heads weren't the only thing the locals wanted to mimic)
2 the Egypt connection; cocaine mummies, stonework, Egyptian artifacts in America, and cone heads in Egypt..
3 bore holes and other machine tool marks at Puma Punku, including H blocks that were unfinished also machine tool marks in egpyt
4 the level of understanding the ancients appeared to show in piezoelectric rock, magnetic anomalies in the H blocks and wierd em in the pyramids as well as many other cites
but i think this is also the best explanation for the scoop marks at the unfinished obelisk and also in those ancient chineese caverns
oh yeah then theres those african stone circles again...
@UCFia93SHLNR7fQGFR68F8Vw
Do you realize that this channel has long called these walls the work of a pre inca culture? This channel is one of the best on youtube for information about the ancients given quite objectively, regardless of the status quo. Truth is often far more complex than we would like.
If the Incas built those walls and structures, I guess they just went backwards with their stone work after that?
A possible explanation,the ancestors of the inca were technically advanced,but thier abilitys were lost,like the fall of the romans.
genocide will do that
WE can't do it....
these were public works, nowadays Peru is a mestizo, westernized country. Indigenous people don't build public works anymore.
@ナノ人 ?
"Only the tops of the stones are unevenly shaped"
Well, that's just not true at all. At best there might be more flat bottoms. But, what about both sides? A lot of side stones cut underneath the one beside it. Almost like (if not cut to fit perfectly) it was poured in place.
Depending on where the structure was built, these gigantic blocks seem to be bulging out (look fat). If not cut that way...the bulging would be at the bottom where they "treated" them with acid. For them to bulge in the middle like this, the entire rock, inside and out would've had to have been [perfectly] just soft enough.
The Inca did not build the Megalithic Stone Walls, buildings, or other structures. Now, the Inca did build on top of or next to the structures, and it is easy to see the distinct differences in the styles. The Inca told the Spanish, who conquered them, that they did not build the Megalithic Structures. Check into the historical accounts written by the Spanish at the time. Have traveled around Peru and have touched many of the stoneworks.
Thanks for that bit of info
The last sentence in Tributsch's paper:
"We should learn more about it, should undertake experimental archaeology to understand it properly."
20 auditory painful minutes I won't get back.
@Keir Mardy
If your time were so valuable, you wouldn't spend it on YT, much less watching videos like this one. 🤣
The fact that you spent 20 minutes of your time watching this video is on you, not on the author.
@@Goreuncle I give every theory a chance until I've scrutinized and decided for myself if its valid because most people (I'm guessing you included) are sofa squatting TV watching headline consumers. Its called research dumb*ss.
Its called research dumbass.
With all of the stones there, they would've needed one hell of a production facility for the acid solution.
Incas always preferred coca to lsd
And a lot of heavy duty rubber gloves to apply that stuff, they must have had some dry cracked hands.
many safety gloves supplyed by the union
Again fabulous ty
Acid that’s the best explanation I’ve heard yet bravo