As many of you will know, Sacsayhuaman has been a strong area of research for me during the past few weeks and as I continue to dig deeper into this ancient enigma, the more I’m blown away. I didn’t really know how to title this video because each video is just more and more information about the same site and this one really gets into the detail.

Sacsayhuaman is quickly becoming my very favourite ancient architectural wonder. There really is something about it that sets it apart from everything else I’ve seen. It’s apparently a religious-military construction, a site of water management, wells, springs, reservoirs and irrigation; it’s a site of incredible stonework and mindboggling feats of engineering, easily one of the most elaborate constructions in human history.

The earliest Spaniards saw it as a fortress, mainly because of the huge walls that would have been seen as defensive to Europeans. But chronicler Pedro Cieza de Leon saw it differently, noting that is was a House of the Sun with clear ceremonial and religious functions. He saw the military function being mainly symbolic and its possible that ritual battles took place there.

This week I’ve been looking through the earliest sources available from the Spanish Chroniclers of the 16th century, but then I also discovered the original archaeological excavation reports for from the 1930s. The findings are fascinating and eye opening and I’ve come to realise that so much important information as well as the opinions of the lead excavator, have been lost through time.

Make sure you watch this video to learn about the lost history of this incredible ancient site. This was Sacsayhuaman before the Spanish conquest and it could be the greatest ever feat of construction in human history.

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Restoring and Preserving the Incan Cultural Wonder of Saqsaywaman, Kenneth Scott Lohr (2014)
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Inca Architecture from the Andes to the Adriatic: Pedro Sancho’s Description of Cuzco, Michael J. Schreffler.
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Inka Settlement Planning, John Hyslop (1990)

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