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The monstery Santo Domingo in Cuzco

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In the monastery of Santo Domingo one can see the best of Incan architecture. Here inside the monastery are the remnands of the Temple of the Sun which was at the heart of the Inca Empire. The stonework here is nothing short of stunning. The stones are layed on each other so precise that not even a piece of paper could fit in between them.
This cutout is absolutely phenomenal! At first glimps it looks like a modern safe.
The backside is worked like that as well.
Here are the details of the cutout. You can clearly see the incredible workmanship, preciese to the millimeter. The stone used is Granit, one of the hardest rocks to carve. There are grooves only a few millimeters wide, holes that are drilled through the rock.
Archaeologist theorize that the holes and groves were used to suspend idols with strings. This explanation doesn't work for me. For this the grooves and holes are way to complicated. It looks much more like somtime in the past there were electric cables guided in those grooves. This would also explain the wholes through the structures.
Was electricity used here? Was this the reason it was called the temple of the sun (light)?
Did the gods leave the Inca kings techology they could impress their people with?
Here a closer look at the holes above the cutout.
The strange holes and grooves can not only be found in the above cutout. Everywhere around the monastery one can find broken pieces of stones like this. The way everything is carved is very similar to Tiahuanacu and Puma Punku.
This relief is a replica. Unfortunately nobody tells you where one can see the original. It shows clearly that the temple had astronomical connections.