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Who Built the Incredible Megalithic Structures of the Ancient City of Cusco? Walk and Talk!

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Connection to Sacsayhuamán above the city.

Who Built the Incredible Megalithic Structures of the Ancient City of Cusco? Walk and Talk!

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Polygonal masonry

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Thread · Sacsayhuamán · 22:00

A viewerThe joints on that upper terrace look like the Cusco ones.

A stonemasonSame idea, different rock. Limestone here, andesite there.

A reader with the paperProtzen measured both in 1985. His figures are worth comparing.

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Who Built the Incredible Megalithic Structures of the Ancient City of Cusco? Walk and Talk!UnchartedX · on Sacsayhuamán

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Sacsayhuamán

Polygonal walls

Material: granitelimestone; A stonemason“These blocks are limestone.”
Photographs: Photo needed; Someone who lives nearby“Here is the other face of the wall.”
Sources: noneInca Quarrying and StonecuttingProtzen, J.-P. · JSAH 44(2), 1985; A reader with the paper“Protzen measured these joints in 1985.”