The Impossible Stones — Puma Punku, Tiwanaku (12,800 feet above sea level), and the Bearded God Who Came From the Lake
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Show by Ty Bricker
The Impossible Stones — Puma Punku, Tiwanaku, and the Bearded God Who Came From the Lake12,800 feet above sea level. The Bolivian Altiplano. Near the southern shore of Lake Titicaca sits a platform called Puma Punku.Its builders quarried 131-ton red sandstone blocks 10 kilometers away and hauled them uphill by muscle power alone. They quarried 130-ton andesite blocks — one of the hardest stones on Earth — from a peninsula 40 kilometers away, across a lake, and cut them to tolerances measured today at hundredths of a millimeter. They bound the blocks with molten copper clamps in a technique that appears elsewhere in the ancient world only in Egypt and Mesopotamia.This week we walk through the engineering. The Berkeley experimental archaeology showing how it was achieved. And why the knowledge of how to do it at scale was lost when Tiwanaku collapsed and has never been recovered.Plus Viracocha — the bearded creator god who emerged from Lake Titicaca, destroyed a first race of giants in a flood, taught humanity civilization, and walked west across the Pacific promising to return.The same story we found in Sumer. In Egypt. In Mesoamerica. On every continent.Different vocabulary. Same phenomenon.
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