Dr. James Fitzsimmons

Like, it looks like it's just modern, like made out of

looks like something that, you know, just was cut with an industrial saw or something, right?

But it's not.

And the rocks are organized such that they actually are three-dimensional.

So there's a block, right?

But the block will have...

pieces in it yes tiwanaku yep uh that's the gate of the sun i will say the tiwanaku gate of the sun is a lot smaller in reality yeah it looks really big right but then you see someone standing next to it you get there and you're like oh this is actual size like it's really small that's interesting um yeah uh that is a surprising thing about this is you see these gates and you're like oh these amazing they're like no they're actually really small uh

But you see these blocks and they fit together and they're done three-dimensionally.

So you have a block and there'll be like knobs on the outside and there'll be another block that's perfectly cut to fit those knobs.

And they'll lock them together Jenga style.

And the reason why the Tiwanaku folks are doing this ostensibly is because they're trying to earthquake-proof their settlements.

Some of these buildings are earthquake-proof, so they'll move a little bit.

So if the ground shakes or anything like that, it'll move a little bit.

The Inca actually stole those.

Stole that idea, essentially.

And so we now attribute it to the Inca, that the Inca had stuff like this.

But realistically speaking, it was Tiwanaku who had it first.

And that's an amazing thing.

I'm sort of having these earthquake-proof buildings.

You mean in South America or Mesoamerica?