November 7, 2003
Machu Picchu x2
Using an infra-red camera to peer through dense Peruvian forest cover for the first time, explorers have found a lost ruin which seems to be a sister site of the Inca ceremonial city of Machu Picchu.From the Telegraph.Flying over the Andes in a single engined Cessna, the Anglo-American expedition found Llactapata when the camera picked out the outlines of stone buildings, which retain heat, unlike vegetation.
Posted by David on November 7, 2003 12:00 PM
So the popular press still thinks Machu Picchu is the city of the Sun Virgins?
I thought the going archeological/anthropological theory was that it was an "estate": a pleasure palace built by one of the Incan rulers (of which there are many, I understand?).
Posted by: Anonymous on November 7, 2003 2:57 PM
Some of the ways they are finding lost cities leaves me in awe. The old trade city in Saudi Arabia found because of shuttle photos showing trails because the pebbles had been stepped on so much they were smaller, thus reflecting light less in the photos.
Posted by: gunner on November 8, 2003 8:21 PM
More details from Gary Zeigler, written after the 2003 Llactapata expedition:
Machu Picchu, Inca Pachacuti’s Sacred City:
A multiple ritual, ceremonial and administrative center.
Gary Ziegler and J. McKim Malville, August 2003
http://www.adventurespecialists.org/mapi1.html
We carefully re-examined the main compounds, conjuntos, kanchas, temples, passageways and stones. Our observation is that every feature or construction appears to be planned and aligned with a purpose, nothing left to chance.
Unfortunately the illustrations referred to in this article are not visible.
Posted by: Peter Shriner on November 9, 2003 5:38 PM
One of the most wonderful stone buildings is Machu Picchu Saqsayhuaman Ruins
Posted by: Blanca Nieto on September 5, 2005 1:00 AM
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