This is How They Built the Inca Stone Walls | Ancient Architects

More than a year ago I made a video about the famous Inca or Pre-Inca Stone walls of Peru and I presented the hypothesis that the reason they are made from irregular blocks of stone yet interlock so perfectly is because they are made by stacking cement bags.

Although I’ve presented the idea, many viewers have pointed out a number of problems with the hypothesis and I have to admit that geologically this idea doesn’t work as the rocks have been analysed and their quarries have been located. So I have since been searching for an alternative explanation and I believe I’ve found a researcher who does have the answer.

Images are taken from the paper above, or marked as royalty free on Google Images, and are for educational purposes only.

[andacomfeeuvou]

The day you build a stone wall like the one they build, then I believe you found out how they did it.

[batmscot]

Well it's certainly a worthy hypothesis but I want to see this done in real time, and I want to know how they moved the stones while fitting them .

[JohnHemmings]

Good video, but your sing song tone is really distracting.

[billywilliamsii]

I did stone work years ago for quite a few years, helped build homes, cutting/shaping all kinds of stone; and just from researching this particular site and also Pumu Punku, the only way this is possible; the rounded edges and beveling, the way they are formed and fit, would be if they were poured, or molded, or the molecular structure of the stone was able to be altered some how. All of the people who try to claim that monkeys with hammers (obviously exaggerating) just chiseled these stones, should have their degrees revoked. And not one time has anyone been able to re create any of this stuff with a “hammer and chisel”.

[dschleppe]

If this is how its done, replicate it and then announce it. Why leave it at theory when this "simple" technology is available to test now.

[john]

Viewers: Computer narrators are annoying.
Ancient Architects: Hold my beer.

[docelsea]

I love your effort BUT, it seems to me that the first question to answer is, how they Quarried and moved each piece. Next question is what was the mechanism that allowed them to place and remove each piece possibly several times to ensure the tight fit.
I was a journeyman Finnish carpenter for many years and any multiangle joint would take several fit checks and they did not usually weight more than 2000 lbs. These builders were amazing.

[ernestengle]

According to the Inca, they did not build these stone walls. Inca said that they were built by "those who came before us".

[cptechno]

To prove this, you have to recreate it convincingly.

[Bloomcycle]

Was a stone Mason's helper for many years and I've never seen such precision work. I've shaped tons of stone and am amazed at how good they were . Joint patterns that don't even matter or nesisary but always link up 🤔

[sahamal_savu]

I thought it was the accent people were annoyed about. But they're right, that downward inflection at the end of EVERY sentence is ridiculous.

[JoeBlowUK]

I can confirm this... I poured some acid on a 20 ton stone block, then it changed shape and carried itself up a mountain and plonked itself on top of a wall.

[hardmanners]

I'd really like to see somebody actually use such acid and fit a few large rocks together the way the megalith builders did

[jazzfranco]

the narrator voice is not suitable for this documentary

[skaterfugater]

i love your channel for relentlessly going after these questions without blindly believing "classic" theories but also not explaining everything with aliens.

[sonnyshaw]

It's certainly an good theory, but my question is how did they move 100-200-300 ton stones across the the sacred valley from the quarry up the side of a mountain to Machu Picchu? I'll stick with the pre Incan lost civilization that had a technology far more advanced that even today's masonry abilities. In some place the quarries were 35 or more Kilometers away.

[chetcarman]

So, shouldn't be a problem to reproduce this simplistic technology and build a small example for us. Looming forward to your demonstration.

[Bobcat]

Holy fuck, I thought the comments were being rude. But he really has the delivery of a Fable salesman.

[andybody]

These blocks are from the original BC Lego Company . Fred Flintstone was the foreman...

[felixpoventud]

If the inca built this? Why do the inca say they didnt built this! The inca say this was already there when they came to live there! It was already old when they got there? Where are the roads? Math, and writing and planning to built this! How did they bring the stone up the mountain without roads? Or weels? How did they bring the stone up the mountain without damaging the stone? If its earth quake poof? How did they know to do that? How would we build this today? What kind of tools you would need to build this city atop the mountain? Where are the roads going up the mountain? How is it flood poof?