Ben van Kerkwyk

They had to build the road around it, the modern road around it.

And this block, when you pace it out and measure it, it's probably not less than 90 tons of granite.

And I mean, we couldn't, I mean, shit, the equipment to try and move this on this would destroy this road.

uh, to try and lift this.

But these, there's, there's dozens, there's like a dozen or more of these things all the way up to the quarry, uh, at Ollantaytambo.

But it's just, again, it's very obvious that the Inca rebuilt this.

Um, but something happened here where they went to, yeah, these are the big 80 ton blocks, uh,

In the center of it.

And this is one of the examples I love to show people.

It's like, okay, you're telling me the same people did all of this stonework?

The stuff in the middle and like this little filler work in here?

Yeah.

For sure, at Tiwanaku, yes, there was a huge... And something happened, like a cataclysm happened.

Look at these blocks.

These big blocks are scattered around.

Something knocked this structure over.

And these are huge blocks of stone.

What had happened to cause that?

That's a good example of the Hanan Pacha, the carved bedrock.

You see a lot of this crazy stuff.