 | Tiahuanacu
is a "UNESCO World Heritage Site".
In
the past hundred years the ancient ruins served as a source for stones
to build houses for the local community and therefore are lot of damage
was done to the site.
There are delicately carved stones lying around everywhere piles and piles of them.
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 | Right
after you enter the site you will see how careless the archeologists
worked in Tiahuanacu. Piles like those are everywhere. The carved
stones are just thrown together without context, rhime or reason. |
 | Mysteriously
carved stones are standing right and left on the path to the ruins. The
archeologists just place them there, they haven't been there originally.
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 | Not
far from the entrance there are these two lonely blocks. They must
weigh many tonnes. It almost looks like they where thrown around by a
big explosion or something. The blocks are carved with extreme
precision - just like the most granit blocks in Tiahuanacu. |
 | There two different types of building materials used in Tiahuanacu: Redish Sandstone and greenish-blue Andesit, a superhard type of granit.
The much softer sandstone was used for "everyday" buildings. On this photo you can see the remnants of such a building. |
 | This
wide-angle shot gives you a good overview over the main site Kalasaya,
and Tiahuanacu (or what's left). Click on the image to get a new window
with a higher resolution image and the according numbers and
explanations:
1. The gate of the sun
2. The "Accoustic stone" - see below
3. The Ponce Monolith
4. Reconstructed gate
5. The "The semi-subterrenian" temple
6. The Monolith El Fraile |
 | The famous gate of the Sun.
I made a separate page for it. Please click here. |
 | The Ponce Monolith. |
 | Here a closer view at the "semi-sub-terrenian temple". It's built with astronomical alignments in mind.
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 | The
heads in the walls (like pretty much everything else reconstructed
wrongly, they haven't been there originally) show different facial and
racial features. Most of them have modern looking helmets. Also a
common trait are the square, robot-like eyes of some of them.
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 | The
reconstructed gate within the reconstructed wall. By the way that
reconstructed wall that surrounds the part of Tiahuanacu called Kalasasaya
is a total fantasy product of the archeologists. Nobody really knows
how it looked and if there ever was a wall. The earliest photos and
descriptions of Tiahuanacu were made by Max Uhle and Stuebel in their
book "Die Ruinenstaette von Tiahuanacu". All it shows are the big
Megaliths in between the reconstructed walls. The reason I don't
believe that there was ever a wall there is the fact that those big
megaliths have carvings INSIDE were now the "reconstructed" wall is. |
 | In
Tiahuanacu and Puma Punku one can often see blocks of granit, that were
held together with metal clamps. You can see that in the photo on the
left. This ingenius method was used by the ancients all over the world.
Who were the teachers? |
 | Another sensation in Tiahuanacu!
Just a stone with a hole? But that hole is something special! This monolith features a weirdly cut hole in its upper half.
At
first sight one wouldn't think much about it, but if you press your ear
to this hole incredible things happen: Normal voices and sounds ca.
300m (yards) away are heard crystal clear, just like an amplifier! But
that's not all. If one speaks through that hole the voice gets
distorted. A man's voice will sounds very "robot" like.
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 | Here
a closer view at this "accustic miracle" of Tiahuanacu. You can see how
precise it was cut and carved. The accustic properties are not there by
coincidence! Whoever made this had an incredible knowledge about
physics and accustics.
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