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Snapshot: Restoration work

Restoration work
  • User: bperry
  • GigaPan: Cuzco - Sacsayhuaman wide view
  • Name: Restoration work
  • Description:

    There's some restoration work going on around the corner. I wanted to do a shot that included it, but there wasn't time.

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  • Created at: 2007-11-26 05:19:40 -0500
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Comments

  • Illah Nourbakhsh

    Illah Nourbakhsh (November 27, 2007, 05:18PM )

    It's astounding. My wife worked on a series called "Secrets of Lost Empires" at NOVA (WGBH/Boston) where they tried to do these sorts of feats again, including one with the Easter Island statues (which are much lighter, I believe). The historians had a very hard time using period materials to pull it off.

  • Don French

    Don French (November 26, 2007, 07:43PM )

    The largest stone here weighs in at over 120 metric tons by the most conservative estimate and 360 tons by the most liberal estimate. (One metric ton is about 1.1 US tons.) To put that in perspective, a Cadillac Escalade weighs 3.4 tons. So the stone weighs somewhere between 35 and 100 Escalades. The Incas who did not have the wheel or a written language, transported these behemoths several miles uphill to the building site. No explanation I have ever heard for how they might have done that was remotely sensical.