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@Weird_Old_World

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Shedding light on lesser-known ancient sites. Full videos on Youtube.

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Day 7 of the Sacsayhuaman walls excavations. As @Graham__Hancock would say, stuff just keeps on getting deeper. Pit #1 is now at about 180cm/6ft. It's still unclear whether there's another block underneath. We shall know tomorrow. The bottom seems to have been reached in pits
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3/3.The rocks that you could see yesterday in pit #3 have been removed and we now see the geological layer of clay underneath the blocks. I'm sure some people will be disappointed that it doesn't go deeper, but it's also good news as it means it's now ready for sampling and
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2/3.We can't see the bottom of the two buried blocks in pit #2 either, but given their proportions, it looks like we might know tomorrow whether there's another layer of blocks underneath or not.
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Day 6 of "How deep do the Sacsayhuaman walls go?". Depth of pit #1 is now about 140cm and we still can't see the bottom of the buried block. 1/3
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Chincana Project update - Day 79. This excavation in Sacsayhuaman could lead to the tunnels that chronicler Garcilaso de la Vega talks about in his Royal Commentaries, when he recounts:. "An underground network of passages [. ] composed of a quantity of streets and alleyways
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Day 5 of "How deep do the Sacsayhuaman walls go?".Current depth: about 100cm (video shot at midday). The stones of the 3rd pit are coming out tomorrow. 🧵1/3
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Day 4 of excavating the Sacsayhuaman walls. If you guessed that it was going deeper, you were right. What seems to be another layer of blocks starts to appear!. 🧵 1/3
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🚨 Breaking! .The Inkarri Institute has LiDAR scanned the area of the Peruvian Amazon jungle where they suspect Paititi, the legendary lost city of the Incas, is located. Results coming soon. Stay tuned!
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Day 3 of excavating the Sacsayhuaman wall. About 60cm deep. How much deeper do you think this wall go? .Place your bets. 1/3. Check the other excavations below.
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Update on the excavation of the Sacsayhuaman wall on day 2. Before you comment that they haven't made much progress, you should know that archaeological digs are slow for a reason, and that no, you cannot use a backhoe. I get the frustration, but patience is a virtue.
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Have you ever visited Sacsayhuaman and wondered how much of the walls was still buried underground? How deep do these huge blocks really go?.Well, we’re about to find out.
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So, my Youtube channel got a warning because a video I posted 8 months ago, a 3D model of Sacsayhuaman created by @mariusderomanu3 apparently violated the community guidelines and was considered "harmful or dangerous content". I'll put the link in the comments, but please watch
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Chincana Project update - Day 69.An offering (aka Haywarikuy in the Quechua language) to Pachamama performed by a Paqo (Andean "shaman") to ask for permission to enter the underworld.
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