Some Obscurish facts
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Tiahuanaco: Tiahuanacu (also called Tiwanaku) is a mystery because of its age (estimated to be a minimum of 17,000 years) and the peculiar stone technology. Today there is little doubt that Tiahuanaco was a major centre and focal point of a culture that spread across much of the region. The ancient people built a stone pyramid known as the Akapana. The structure of Puma Punku, truly startles the imagination. It seems to be the remains of a great wharf (for Lake Titicaca long ago lapped upon the shores of Tiahuanaco) and a massive, four-part, now collapsed building. One of the construction blocks from which the pier was fashioned weighs an estimated 440 tons (equal to nearly 600 full-size cars) and several other blocks laying about are between 100 and 150 tons. The quarry for these giant blocks was on the western shore of Titicaca, some ten miles away. There is no known technology in all the ancient world that could have transported stones of such massive weight and size. The Andean people of 500 AD, with their simple reed boats, could certainly not have moved them. Even today, with all the modern advances in engineering and mathematics, we could not fashion such a structure.
Tiahuanaco: Tiahuanacu (also called Tiwanaku) is a mystery because of its age (estimated to be a minimum of 17,000 years) and the peculiar stone technology. Today there is little doubt that Tiahuanaco was a major centre and focal point of a culture that spread across much of the region. The ancient people built a stone pyramid known as the Akapana. The structure of Puma Punku, truly startles the imagination. It seems to be the remains of a great wharf (for Lake Titicaca long ago lapped upon the shores of Tiahuanaco) and a massive, four-part, now collapsed building. One of the construction blocks from which the pier was fashioned weighs an estimated 440 tons (equal to nearly 600 full-size cars) and several other blocks laying about are between 100 and 150 tons. The quarry for these giant blocks was on the western shore of Titicaca, some ten miles away. There is no known technology in all the ancient world that could have transported stones of such massive weight and size. The Andean people of 500 AD, with their simple reed boats, could certainly not have moved them. Even today, with all the modern advances in engineering and mathematics, we could not fashion such a structure.