Terri Cook and Lon AbbottThese stones, as seen in Ollantaytambo, Peru, fit so perfectly together that the gaps in between are ...

Question: I've heard that there are stone walls on Easter Island that look very much like the Inca stone walls. Have you seen them, and do you know if there is any evidence on Easter Island about ...

Inca structures were surprisingly easy to assemble. With polygonal stones, there’s no reason to strive for individually perfect cubes. “When you’re working a stone, your most fragile part is ...

Atop some mountains in Peru sit the remnants of a large-scale production center. Once an important location, the sites have been forgotten over the centuries. Not anymore. Archaeologists found the ...

500-year-old stone quarry used by Inca empire found along coast of Peru, photos show By Aspen Pflughoeft. December 11, 2023 12:55 PM.

The 500-year-old quarries and their workshops produced square stone blocks known as ashlars, archaeologists said. These types of stones were used in many of the Inca empire’s construction projects.

Inca Stone of 12 Angles in Cusco Peru. (photo credit: Erika Cristina Manno. Via Shutterstock) An attack on Cusco's emblematic Stone of the Twelve Angles led to the arrest of a suspect and the ...

A man attacked the stone with a metal object. Cusco Ministry of Culture. An intoxicated man in Cusco, Peru, has defaced a historic Inca artifact known as the 12-angled stone.The carved rock is a ...