To the best of my knowledge, the Incan masonry technique is unique in the history of architecture. No other culture achieved such a level of stylistic accuracy and perfection. The trivia about the size of the stones, the tightness of the joints and the care given to the finishing has been the subject of much discussion. I wonder how much we can read into the craft about the type of people who put it together and the standards that they were held to. Would I have wanted to live in a world where the sole object of existence was rendering such details to such a level of refinement? Who suffered so that walls like the one pictured here would last for millenia?
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