Tagged “dry-stone”
The Chullpas of Sillustani
How did Andean builders raise dry-stone funerary towers up to 12 meters tall that grow wider as they rise — flaring outward to a top broader than their base — from mortarless, precisely fitted blocks, on a windswept peninsula at nearly 3,900 meters in a seismically active corner of the Andes?
Late Intermediate Period through Late Horizon (c. 12th–16th century CE; Colla, later Inca) · Sillustani, Lake Umayo, Atuncolla, Puno Region, PeruAdded July 2026
HIGH WONDERSu Nuraxi di Barumini
A Bronze Age people who left no writing covered Sardinia with some 7,000 dry-stone towers, then grew this one from a single keep into a walled bastion and town — so what were the nuraghi actually for, and who exactly built them?
c. 1600–1200 BCE, Bronze Age (later expanded) · Barumini, Sardinia, ItalyAdded July 2026