This video is on a topic that I’ve wanted to get into for some time, and that is to take a closer look at the magnificent megalithic architecture of Peru, and breakdown what it is, where it came from and who likely built these incredible achievements of the ancient world.
If you look on wikipedia, read any mainstream textbooks or ask any of the certified tour guides, with very few exceptions, they’ll all more or less tell you that the Inca built everything. This claim doesn’t make any real sense when you take a close look at the sites, it certainly doesn’t match what the inca themselves said, and anyone with an open mind who visits Peru and takes a close look at the megalithic sites left to us will immediately see for themselves the very obvious evidence that there is a deep history to these places in times,… before the Inca ever emerged as a culture. So stick with me for the next few minutes as I explain why I think the amazing andean architecture of Peru is much older than we’ve all be told.
Peru and the countries of south america are unique and stunningly beautiful places to visit, but their ancient history is completely shrouded in mystery.
It is somewhat ironic that we know much more about Egypt and other ancient civilizations like the Greeks and Romans, as all of these civilizations also existed well before the known cultures of South America emerged. But it’s mainly because of the written records from those times, and the fact that they co-existed and there are multiple sources for much of the information left to us.
This type of multiple source material and written records is not the case when it comes to Peru and much of South America – which we only officially discovered , in terms of modern European history, at the end of the 15th century, many thousands of years after the familiar ancient civilizations we know so much about.
The primary reason for this lack of knowledge about the history of Peru and much of South America is that it was mostly all destroyed, in one of the worst crimes ever committed against humanity. Only a few short decades after Columbus’s voyage of discovery, the Spanish conquistadors that descended upon the Incan civilization had effectively stolen or destroyed damn near everything, and slaughtered huge portions of it’s people in horrific fashion, all in the name of religious zealotry with the priests and hierarchy of the catholic church cheering them on. To the detriment of our entire species, this heinous crime also included the deliberate destruction of mostly all the artifacts, records, and writings that could have shed light on the long history of this part of the world, and the many chapters of human life that took place in it.
From what little is left to see today, after the destruction wrought by the armoured savages and their bloodthisty god who sailed in on their wooden boats, Its clear that the cultures, civilizations that thrived throughout this region, at least before , had a history that was rich and varied.
We are left with oral traditions and legends that are mostly ignored by mainstream academics, some written accounts from the few spanish invaders that eventually grew a conscience, and very few actual relics.
We are also left with some utterly mind boggling architecture. Like the massive walls at the top of a mountain at Ollantaytambo.. Or the amazing man-made cave and wall at Naupa Huaca … the enigmatic and mysterious chulpa towers at sillustani on lake Titcaca, and giant blocks at the same site, or the incredible formed and worked mountains of stone at Quenqo, or the sublime megalithic architecture that modern-day Cusco is built on top of, and of course, the cyclopean walls of Sacsayhuaman, that look down on Cusco from the surrounding mountains at 12,000 ft altitude.
All attributed to the Inca today, or in some cases they’re finding artifacts from smaller and earlier precursor civilizations like the Wari, but the architecture is usually attributed to the Inca.
The Inca do not claim to have built these sites. For example, they say the gods, the giants of their past, created the cyclopean walls of Sacsayhuaman basically overnight. Giants is not specifically a literal term, it can mean giants of intellect and capability, or a reverence for their ancestors or prior advanced cultures.
Their legends, as well as those of other south and central american cultures like the Tiwanaku people, the Maya and Aztecs, all talk of great civilizers, of Viracoacha, of high technology and beaded, red headed strangers that kick started their cultures and civilizations.
They also speak of a much longer history riddled with cataclysm and the remaking of worlds – which, thanks to much new modern science is exactly what we now know happened in the fairly recent past at the end of the last ice age, during the transition from the pleistocene to the current holoene era. This was the time from roughly 15000 to 10000 years ago – and we now know it was a time riddled with massive, global cataclysms, huge and violent sea level rise episodes, and it was punctuated by a 1,300 year period known as the younger dryas. The younger dryas begins and ends with 2 massive, global disasters that caused huge swings in global temperature and climate, the first plunging the world into a massively cold deep freeze, and the second shocking the world back out of it, and putting the climate onto the same path we are on now.
New science is also showing us that the most likely culprit for these events was cosmic impacts – in other words when the earth collides with giant comets or other cosmic bodies, and we are learning that this happens much more frequently than we once thought it did. The comet research group papers, Randall Carlson, Antonio Zamorra, there is so much new evidence for these events that is now becoming mainstream. I will make more videos on that specific topic on this channel, but I believe that it was these events of the Younger Dryas, and possible those that occurred before it in the Bolling-Allerod period, but events in the timeframe roughly 15,000 to 10,000 years ago that ended the global, advanced cultures who built the origins of the sites that we see in South America, Egypt, Lebanon, and so many other places around the world. I also think It was these events that so violently altered and even destroyed parts of these sites that we can still see today.
What is certainly clear is that the history of such sites is much more nuanced and faceted than the simple explanation that the Inca built them all. I think that the Inca inherited them, occupied them, lived in and worked on these sites during their ascendancy and reign over the western portion of South America. Their civilization was vast and achieved much, but I suspect they were just the latest civilization to have left their mark on these sites, at least before the colonial spanish, who certainly left their marks, and then our own modern day culture – all layers that are visible and written into the architecture of Cusco.
What is also clear to anyone that has looked closely, with an open mind, or anyone with any construction, engineering or stonemasony experience will see is that there is much more going on at these sites than you will be told by tour guides who will all invariably tell you that the Inca did it all.
This fact has been obvious for some time, and there have been dedicated researchers exploring the various aspects and nuance of the ancient peruvian sites.
Jesus Gamarra and his father Alfredo, have lived and researched in the Cusco area for more than 70 years now. I’ve met him twice, once in 2013 on a tour with Graham Hancock and Brien Forester, and them again in 2015 when he was kind enough to meet up with us in Cusco, for a chat in our favorite café near the Coricancha. Jesus and his father have published several books on their theories about the real history of the andes in spanish, he also has a good dvd in english called the Cosmogony of the Three Worlds. Has some theories that are out there, but has an extremely solid system of identification and categorization of the three different types of masonry work you see.
This is extremely important work, once you see and understand these different types of construction on the sites you can’t unsee them. They also have a specific order of construction, one layer on top of the last, that is consistent across all the sites. The work itself shows three very distinct construction methods, and the consistent order of work indicates three different time periods, and perhaps even cultures. This is reinforced by the glaringly obvious different levels of technology that must have been used to create them, it seems highly improbably that the same culture made all three styles, although that’s what you’re told by academia and certainly all the certified tour guides, despite it being clearly illogical to anyone that actually thinks about what they’re seeing. Also these styles, while prevalent in south america, are also reflected around the world in various other ancient sites.
Check out the video above for a detailed description of the three different types of architecture.
Some points in conclusion.
Firstly, none of this is taking anything away from the Inca. Their civilization was vast, it achieved much and is to be respected,truly a heritage to be proud of. That doesn’t mean they didn’t inherit parts of it from their own ancestors or prior cultures, or that there is still a lot of mystery surrounding the true history of this part of the world. I had a nasty encounter with a relatively well known peruvian guide and author, Maalku Aribaldo, who insisted that the Inca built everything – all styles were the Inca, and he claimed it was an ‘organic’ style, that incorporated the very poor stonework right next to the colossal megalithic work. When I expressed some of the logical and obvious inconsistencies that are apparent with that theory, I was immediately accused of believing that aliens made everything, and that I was a conspiracy theory idiot, and other such nonsense, as if I had somehow insulted his heritage just by asking questions. I can recommend you stay away from that guy, apart from leaping directly to ad hominems, strawmen arguments, and other logical fallacies, he also likes to make tour groups skip lunch.
I don’t claim to have answers, but I believe there is more here than can be explained by the mainstream story. Obvious different types of construction, obvious erosion and age differences, and vastly different levels of technology have been employed on these sites.
What happened to the Inca was a great tragedy, and a tremendous loss for our entire species when all their records and artifacts were destroyed. It clearly needs more open minded study, which is what I’m trying to promote. The bottom line is that there are some real mysteries here, that can inspire a true sense of wonder in anyone that takes the time to visit this region, and study for themselves the spectacular, mind-opening remains of an obviously advanced ancient civilization.
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