Machu Picchu
On the rocky countryside near Cuzco, Peru sits spectacular piece of history, Machu Picchu. This sacred religious site for Incan leaders that was taken over by the Spanish in the 16th century sat undiscovered for thousands of years. In 1911, a man that went by the name Hiram Bingham discovered this glorious manifesto of ancient life. It features more than 3,000 steps that reach different heights throughout the city and has a stretch of more than 5 miles. Nowadays, it is a tourist attraction that brings in hundreds of thousands of people each year to marvel over its beautifully made buildings, towers and structure but behind all the wonderful sites it promotes, is history; history that tells us about their irrigation system, architecture, …show more content…
The site covers 80,000 acres (32,500 hectares). (Jarus) Machu Picchu was built by Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui, he was the ninth ruler of the Incans. He started many conquests that would throughout time; see the Inca emerge into a Southern realm of South America. Archaeologists think that the ruins were built as a royal estate strictly for the emperor of the Incans. The most influential people lived in the northeast sector of the ruin, whereas only the emperor lived in the southwest part of the estate. His dwelling was adjacent to that of a temple known as the Temple of the Sun. The name of the temple fit quite well, due to the massive rock that sat inside of it. The rocks sit in alignment with the window so that when the sun shines through it creates a solstice sun. If you were to travel beneath this magnificent temple, you would come upon a cave. The cave was naturally formed; it is believed to have served the purpose of a religious site of some …show more content…
He wrote a book known as “The Lost City of the Incas” in this novel you find the most interesting facts and stories about his endeavors in Peru. I will share with you a paragraph he had written about one of the better-maintained houses he found in the ruins. “ The interior of one of the better houses in the East city has stone mortars, useful in the process of grinding corn or frozen potatoes, carved out of the ledge on which the house rests. In between the niches, just above the head of one of my Indian helpers, may be seen a roughly cylindrical block of stone bonded into the wall. It was customary in most Incan houses to have one of these stone pegs placed between each pair of niches. Probably the pointed chicha jars, sometimes called aryballi, were hung from the stone pegs.” (Bingham) In his writings Bingham was amazed at the amount of symmetry and proportion the builders had when building the temples and houses. The marvelous granite walkways and stone buildings will forever be an architecture
On the rocky countryside near Cuzco, Peru sits spectacular piece of history, Machu Picchu. This sacred religious site for Incan leaders that was taken over by the Spanish in the 16th century sat undiscovered for thousands of years. In 1911, a man that went by the name Hiram Bingham discovered this glorious manifesto of ancient life. It features more than 3,000 steps that reach different heights throughout the city and has a stretch of more than 5 miles. Nowadays, it is a tourist attraction that brings in hundreds of thousands of people each year to marvel over its beautifully made buildings, towers and structure but behind all the wonderful sites it promotes, is history; history that tells us about their irrigation system, architecture, …show more content…
The site covers 80,000 acres (32,500 hectares). (Jarus) Machu Picchu was built by Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui, he was the ninth ruler of the Incans. He started many conquests that would throughout time; see the Inca emerge into a Southern realm of South America. Archaeologists think that the ruins were built as a royal estate strictly for the emperor of the Incans. The most influential people lived in the northeast sector of the ruin, whereas only the emperor lived in the southwest part of the estate. His dwelling was adjacent to that of a temple known as the Temple of the Sun. The name of the temple fit quite well, due to the massive rock that sat inside of it. The rocks sit in alignment with the window so that when the sun shines through it creates a solstice sun. If you were to travel beneath this magnificent temple, you would come upon a cave. The cave was naturally formed; it is believed to have served the purpose of a religious site of some …show more content…
He wrote a book known as “The Lost City of the Incas” in this novel you find the most interesting facts and stories about his endeavors in Peru. I will share with you a paragraph he had written about one of the better-maintained houses he found in the ruins. “ The interior of one of the better houses in the East city has stone mortars, useful in the process of grinding corn or frozen potatoes, carved out of the ledge on which the house rests. In between the niches, just above the head of one of my Indian helpers, may be seen a roughly cylindrical block of stone bonded into the wall. It was customary in most Incan houses to have one of these stone pegs placed between each pair of niches. Probably the pointed chicha jars, sometimes called aryballi, were hung from the stone pegs.” (Bingham) In his writings Bingham was amazed at the amount of symmetry and proportion the builders had when building the temples and houses. The marvelous granite walkways and stone buildings will forever be an architecture