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Re:The Inca Used Knots to Tell Stories by userbinator on Saturday March 19, 2022 @06:13PM (#30738020)
We're talking about 140 tonne rocks being put together to form those structures and assembled without mortar in such a way that one can't slip a piece of paper in between rocks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapping#Two-piece_lapping

As the other comment here says, this isn't a mystery. It's just extremely labour-intensive.

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Re:The Inca Used Knots to Tell Stories by robinsoh on Sunday March 20, 2022 @04:46AM (#30741139)
> As the other comment here says, this isn't a mystery. It's just extremely labour-intensive.

And as I said there, I don't find that kind of blaise response as convincing or substantial. Labour intensive way of lifting and lapping 140 tonne rocks?

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