Wall of giant fitted limestone blocks at Sacsayhuamán, Cusco, Peru
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Sacsayhuamán

A Spanish soldier who walked Sacsayhuamán's walls wrote that a coin could not fit between two stones.

Main walls Inca, 15th c. AD (Killke-period occupation earlier)

How would you fit a 128-tonne stone to its neighbours with no gap?

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Photo: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

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