Who Built the Incredible Megalithic Structures of the Ancient City of Cusco? Walk and Talk!
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Analyzing Megalithic Architecture Layers and Precision in Cusco, Peru
Discover the layered architectural history of Cusco, where ancient, impossibly precise megalithic structures form the forgotten foundations beneath Inca and Colonial construction. You will learn to identify three distinct building styles that challenge conventional timelines of Peruvian history.
Short Summary
- Cusco showcases three overlaid architectural styles: ancient Hanan Patcha (carved bedrock), Urin Patcha (precision megaliths), and Ukun Patcha (Inca stonework).
- Visual evidence, including scoop marks and inconsistent surface rendering, suggests a vast technological gap between the megalithic builders and the Inca.
- The historical record supports this discrepancy, showing later Inca rulers had to build palaces using simpler local materials when megalithic foundations were unavailable.
- This video guides you through minute details—like face angle shifts and intentionally roughened surfaces—that reveal a history far deeper than generally taught.
- The findings in Cusco strongly correlate with similar enigmatic stonework observed in ancient Egyptian sites like Aswan and Giza.
This walk and talk documents on-site observations of Cusco’s unique architectural stratification. Host Ben, joined by experts, provides context establishing why the extreme precision of the lowest stone layers cannot be attributed to the known capabilities of the Inca Empire, framing the city as a site of profound redevelopment built atop a much older, advanced civilization.
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Top Comments (10)
I have worked in all sorts of materials and with all sorts of machine and hand tools including diamond blades, chipping hammers, grinders, water cutting, laser cutting etc and nothing accounts for the type of concave cutting and fitting with matching convex surfaces, on multiple planes of these hard granitic blocks. Attaining that kind of accuracy with that kind of weight is near impossible today at any kind of cost that one would rationally attribute to the building of walls. I am dumbfounded by this and constantly waiting for some evidence of the technology that was used beit 5,000 years ago or perhaps tens of thousands of years ago. Simply amazing and humbling. Great work in detailing and documenting this important discovery that has been sitting right in front of us for millenia. 💪💪💪
I'd never thought that looking at a wall for an hour could be so fascinating! Love your videos Ben!
This format is by far the best. Viewers WANT the “I’m there seeing this with you” experience.
every time Ben says "this video is long enough" i think to myself "no video of yours is "long enough"!"
Only Ben can make me listen intensely for over 1hr about STONES!
I could watch HOURS of this. Honestly, I could watch ALL the entirely unedited video of all these trips. As much as I love this stuff, it's also extremely therapeutic because it always shifts my perspective from whatever struggles are transpiring in my life to the BIG picture of the history of civilization and realization of just how much we still don't know. It helps me sleep too, like having the TV on in the background as a kid when life had me down.
I'm fairly certain Zahi Hawass was driving that truck. 🤣🤣🤣
I’ve done excavation and crane work for 20 years and can’t imagine how to even begin going about building something like this today. Completely mind blowing
Ancient architects did a video about Incan joinery a few years ago highlighting a paper by Helmht Tributsch about how they used a chemically complex mortar that actually melted and vitrified particular kinds of andesite and granite. Very compelling research.
In times when food and water would be the main priority of the day simply to survive, these people decide to create structures we fail to comprehend. I can't watch enough of these fascinating documentaries. Keep 'em coming Ben.
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I have worked in all sorts of materials and with all sorts of machine and hand tools including diamond blades, chipping hammers, grinders, water cutting, laser cutting etc and nothing accounts for the type of concave cutting and fitting with matching convex surfaces, on multiple planes of these hard granitic blocks. Attaining that kind of accuracy with that kind of weight is near impossible today at any kind of cost that one would rationally attribute to the building of walls. I am dumbfounded by this and constantly waiting for some evidence of the technology that was used beit 5,000 years ago or perhaps tens of thousands of years ago. Simply amazing and humbling. Great work in detailing and documenting this important discovery that has been sitting right in front of us for millenia. 💪💪💪
I'd never thought that looking at a wall for an hour could be so fascinating! Love your videos Ben!
This format is by far the best. Viewers WANT the “I’m there seeing this with you” experience.
every time Ben says "this video is long enough" i think to myself "no video of yours is "long enough"!"
Only Ben can make me listen intensely for over 1hr about STONES!
I could watch HOURS of this. Honestly, I could watch ALL the entirely unedited video of all these trips. As much as I love this stuff, it's also extremely therapeutic because it always shifts my perspective from whatever struggles are transpiring in my life to the BIG picture of the history of civilization and realization of just how much we still don't know. It helps me sleep too, like having the TV on in the background as a kid when life had me down.
I'm fairly certain Zahi Hawass was driving that truck. 🤣🤣🤣
I’ve done excavation and crane work for 20 years and can’t imagine how to even begin going about building something like this today. Completely mind blowing
Ancient architects did a video about Incan joinery a few years ago highlighting a paper by Helmht Tributsch about how they used a chemically complex mortar that actually melted and vitrified particular kinds of andesite and granite. Very compelling research.
In times when food and water would be the main priority of the day simply to survive, these people decide to create structures we fail to comprehend. I can't watch enough of these fascinating documentaries. Keep 'em coming Ben.