El Fuerte de Samaipata
Why did successive cultures spend more than a thousand years carving a single sandstone hill into the largest sculptured rock on Earth — cutting channels, niches, and animal reliefs into the living stone — and what were all those figures actually for?
carving begun c. 300 CE (Mojocoyas/Chané), expanded under the Inca in the late 15th century CE · Samaipata, Florida Province, Santa Cruz Department, BoliviaAdded July 2026