Inca Masonry Techniques: How the Master Builders Created Their Remarkable Stonework

The Inca civilization is often depicted as being shrouded in mystery, where how they achieved their incredible stonework is treated like an impenetrable enigma.

The Inca Empire, or Tahuantinsuyu, was still dominant throughout South American at the time of the European conquest.

It stretched from Colombia down into Chile and Argentina, with a peak population of over ten million people before the arrival of European pathogens.

Much of their culture was witnessed and documented by early Spanish chroniclers.

These historical records, supported by physical evidence, reveal how the Inca quarried, transported, split, shaped, fitted, and dressed their stones.