Ben van Kerkwyk
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It's at the top of this steep mountain.
They built this structure.
That's at the quarry.
So I'm standing on one of the stones.
So yeah, that's it there.
And at the top of this are these giant 80-ton granite blocks that make up this central, they call it a sun temple.
And we know where those come from.
It's like if you imagine this giant mountain, there's a big old valley to the left of it and then another giant mountain.
And at the top of that other giant mountain is the quarry for this granite.
five, six miles as the crow flies, but it's probably like 10 or 12 to walk it.
We've climbed up to that quarry.
And all the way along this path, they have what are called these tired stones, which are giant blocks of granite that they just, they just, they dropped.
They just left them there.
They're called the tired stones, yeah.
And in fact, if you see in the very bottom left here, there's a road that they built.
And if you look at some of these other images, I'm standing on some of these rocks.
Actually, this one, this is one of the examples.