Ben van Kerkwyk
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You can't imagine within such a small couple centuries that they lose all that capability.
None of it makes sense.
The only thing that makes sense when you look at that architecture down there is, yeah, they were rebuilding older stonework.
They were repairing it.
They were putting their stuff back on top of it.
I mean, there's so many amazing โ Ollantaytambo is one of my favorite sites down there just because it's so obvious.
There's these giant 80, 90-ton granite blocks that make up this structure, and it's fallen apart.
And then they've tried to move these things, and in between them, they've just stacked all these little local crappy little stones in between.
So do you have any images of that?
I have the Ollantaytambo directory, tons of pictures.
And in fact, that's a whole other interesting story because that place is another example of what you see a lot of in Egypt, which is this phenomenon of just something happened and they went tools down.
We're in the process of doing stuff and just drop work, leave.
Whatever happens, cataclysm, social class, something happened.
Because we know a lot about Ollantaytambo.
It's at the top of a mountain in the Sacred Valley.
Yeah, so this is a great example of the rocks on top of this stuff.
There's a great little drone video, actually.
One of the videos in there is a drone shot from the top of this.