Moray

Announcing “The Monumental Andes”!!!

My book, "The Monumental Andes—Geology, Geography, and Ancient Cultures of the Peruvian Andes", is hot off the presses! Hooray! It is one I would have liked to read before traveling in Peru. In this blog post, I summarize a dozen of my published posts about Peru, emphasizing my favorite topics of the ancient Andeans’ construction, metalworking, and artistic achievements.

By |2024-12-03T10:55:45-07:00December 3rd, 2024|Ancient Andean Cultures, Art & Artifacts|10 Comments

Mysteries of Inca Moray – Part 2

High in the Andes Mountains, the archaeological site of Moray holds many mysteries. Starting with natural sinkholes, Inca builders lined a set of huge circular depressions with concentric terraces. Constructing Moray required tremendous engineering skill and thousands of hours of construction efforts, so why was it built?

By |2022-06-25T14:37:08-07:00October 29th, 2020|Ancient Andean Cultures|0 Comments

Mysteries of Inca Moray – Part 1

The Incas were accomplished engineers who built long-lasting structures, from Machu Pichu on a ridgetop to the Inca Road system along the spine of the Andes Mountains. A sculpted landscape masterpiece that is less well known is a set of large circular depressions lined with concentric rings of stone-lined terraces. Named Moray and located on a high plain about 20 miles northwest of Cusco, these circles began as deep natural sinkholes with unstable slopes at the angle of repose.

By |2020-10-19T17:04:13-07:00October 22nd, 2020|Ancient Andean Cultures|4 Comments
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