Ancient stone with 3d city layout

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2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

A stone has been lying on the banks of the Apurimac River in Peru for several millennia. At the base, it is an ordinary block, approximately 4x4 meters in size, of natural origin. There are no other granite slabs in the foreseeable vicinity. However, it is not the problem of the ancients' delivery of a stone slab to the river that baffles scientists. The upper part of the boulder is puzzling: on its surface there is a miniature … a city.

Yes Yes! As children build houses and turrets from sand, an unknown craftsman of the past carved streets and buildings from granite, a system of water canals, terraces and cultivated fields, temples and squares.

The purpose of this ancient monument has not been clarified. Maybe this is a surviving stone model of the Inca city that has long since vanished in the darkness of centuries? This assumption is also supported by the fact that the irrigation system of the stone model city functions to this day without fail: rainwater flows through canals and rivers, "irrigating" the fields, and then flows down through the drain holes at the edge of the slab (outskirts of the city).

Archaeologists have not found any other stone models of the cities of the ancient Incas. And if the model was the prototype of the future real city, then its creator had to have extraordinary topographic abilities in order to create a similar cast of the area several kilometers long without special measuring instruments and tools.

Was it possible for the ancients? To highly developed Incas, yes. But the material for the model is not suitable - "stubborn" granite, which even today is not easy to process. And the ancient architect probably had to work for more than one year.

There is an assumption that this city is a toy. However, not all is well with this hypothesis: such a toy should have been too expensive. A person of the royal family, however, could allow her child such fun, but the persons of the royal family lived far from the mysterious stone. What about ordinary people?

No answer. Without special training, a simple bricklayer would not have mastered such engineering work. Perhaps the ancient self-taught sculptor decided to capture the austere beauty of his hometown in stone?

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A stone has been lying on the banks of the Apurimac River in Peru for several millennia. At the base, it is an ordinary block, approximately 4x4 meters in size, of natural origin. There are no other granite slabs in the foreseeable vicinity. However, it is not the problem of the ancients' delivery of a stone slab to the river that baffles scientists. The upper part of the boulder is puzzling: on its surface it is made in miniature … the city. The artifact is called the Sayvit stone