Ben van Kerkwyk
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It's K-A-L-A-S-A-Y-S-A, something like that.
But it's like, imagine a big rectangular, huge rectangular.
So actually it's like there's an inner structure there, but this is, so see all those standing stones?
Those are the original stones.
So it actually goes all the way around and all that far side.
So it has an internal structure as well.
Yeah, they reconstructed it.
If you go back to Poznanski's original excavations from the early 1900s, all you see is the big standing stones.
This is one of those places where literally the core of La Paz is made from stones from Tiwanaku.
It's the whole town that's here.
There's a massive church that's...
They made mines and sewer systems.
It was just like the most convenient source of stone.
And in Tiwanaku in particular, like they're very square.
Like it's really linear, beautiful blocks of Anderson, perfect building material.