tháng 11 12, 2015
The day after we arrived in Cusco, Peru we met up with our guide, Betty, for a walking tour of the city.
Where Cusco now stands was the historic capital of the Inca Empire from the 13th into the 16th century until the Spanish conquest.
Modern structures have been built on top of inca ruins with the amazing stone work of ancient artisans still plainly visible today.
We walked, we talked…we felt the stones that ancient hands had chiseled and carved so painstakingly to fit together like a puzzle – like a stone crazy quilt –without mortar.
Stone upon stone upon stone.
The stones are not uniform size, they are all random, and yet they fit together like tongue in groove – dovetailed with no gaps.
How did they do it??
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