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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah

One other issue, a diamond tip wet saw is the only way we could cut granite and diorite today. Diamonds were a very rare commodity 2500 years ago. I am not aware of any Diamond mines in Bolivia at that time. But even if they did have them. It seems amazing that they could have such an exotic cutting tool and yet be forced to use "llama skin ropes".

ZNP, many of your observations are quite compelling, and fascinating. Prior to this thread, I was not aware of those precision stone structures in the Andes. I was aware that modern engineers still don't know how the archeological wonders in Egypt were built. I had attributed their construction to the Israelite slaves and some notion that the ancients were not as stupid as we have been told.