106 years have passed since the American explorer Hiram Bingham opened the "Ancient Peak" to the world - Machu Picchu - the most impregnable of all fortresses, "the home of the Sun God." Bingham wrote about Machu Picchu: "… the delight of discovering massive stone structures of the past race perched on top of overhanging rocks …"
Until now, researchers have not received answers to the questions: what is the true age of Machu Picchu, what was the original name of the city, who built it, why and for what purposes it was built on an inaccessible cliff, who originally lived in this city, why it was abandoned and Where did the treasures of Machu Picchu go?
Academic science states that Machu Picchu was founded by the Inca emperor Pachacutec around 1400 AD. and lasted only one century. In 1532, the Spaniards invaded the lands of the Incas, but did not reach Machu Picchu, the city was neither plundered nor destroyed. It still remains a mystery where and why all of its inhabitants mysteriously disappeared.
The first historical information about the greatest Inca empire dates back to 1200 AD, the last - 1544 It is difficult to imagine how in 350 years the Incas could reach such a high level of development to build thousands of kilometers of roads through the mountains, hundreds of kilometers of underground tunnels, erect Cuzco, Tiwanaku, Machu Picchu, cyclopean structures Ollantaytambo and Sacsayhuaman.
In the 16th century, the Inca Empire had more than 23 thousand kilometers of covered roads built across the entire continent from north to south, through the central and mountainous Andes, along valleys and steep slopes, in the mountains, jungles, on the border of mountain glaciers.
It is hard to believe that the most complex communication system, which is more than half the length of the equator (the length of the equator is 40.07 thousand km), was created by the Incas.
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Machu Picchu is built on top of a mountain range, at an altitude of 2,450 meters above sea level, and 700 meters above the valley of the Urubamba River. There are 92 buildings on artificial terraces. It took incredible skill to build in such an inaccessible place.
Behind the ruins of Machu Picchu rises the Huayna Picchu mountain, covered with terraces, during the construction of which giant blocks, some weighing up to 200 tons, were used. It is impossible to imagine how these stones were delivered to such a height by the Incas, who did not know the wheel.
The highest point of Machu Picchu is the sun stone "Intiuatan" - "the place where the sun lingers", carved out of one huge rock, to which narrow stone steps lead.
Its edges face the four cardinal directions with amazing precision.
Its heart is a ritual stone resembling a sundial.
The altar stone played a special role in the ceremony of symbolic "binding the sun", which the priests performed in order for the luminary to return to Machu Picchu next year.
Perhaps the Intihuatan in ancient times was the "parking place for the Sun God vehicle" - a UFO?
The size and shape of the so-called "Main Temple" and "Temple of the Three Windows" blocks show that the walls were laid by a technologically highly developed civilization.
The temples were built according to the earthquake-resistant technology of megalithic polygonal masonry. Among the blocks there are massive hewn polyhedrons with sharp edges.
What tool was used to achieve this processing? Perhaps these structures existed for millennia before the rise of the Inca empire? Perhaps the Incas erected Machu Picchu on the rubble of much older structures of the megalithic culture?
Traces of the activities of two different civilizations are visible on the structures of Machu Picchu. One of them freely handled huge boulders and hard granite, the possibility of the other - the level of Inca technology.
The ease in handling of hard stone by the ancient craftsmen is striking, as if they were working with foam plastic, and not with a solid igneous rock. Perhaps in ancient times people possessed unique technologies of “softening stones”?
A number of scholars disagree with the dating of the creation of Machu Picchu. In the 1930s, astronomy professor Rolf Müller, calculating the location of the stars in the previous millennia, concluded that the construction of Machu Picchu took place between 4000 and 2000 BC. e.
As the writer and ufologist Erich von Daniken writes in the book “Heavenly Teachers”, “the pre-Incan tribes could not build a megalithic city of such a scale on the steep mountain slopes on their own. They had teachers - two sons of the creator God Viracocha. The sons of God taught people the art of cutting and transporting stones, as well as the wisdom of astronomy."
According to the scientist and traveler Andrei Sklyarov (“Peru and Bolivia long before the Incas”), in Machu Picchu “we are dealing with two fundamentally different phases of construction, separated in time. Moreover, the construction technologies in the second phase are significantly lower than the construction technologies of the first phase. And if we take into account all the differences in these technologies, it becomes clear that it is necessary to speak not only about two periods of construction, but also about the fact that the builders at the first and second stages did not even belong to different cultures, but to different civilizations!"
The American writer, popularizer of the theory of the extraterrestrial origin of man, Zachariah Sitchin in the book "Armageddon Is Postponed" hypothesizes that the stone structures and megalithic walls of Machu Picchu were the creations of representatives of prehistoric civilization.
According to one of the legends, the city was built for astronomical observations. The Intihuatan stone ("catching the Sun") was the "indicator" of the date of the two equinoxes. The sun touched the stone on the days of the spring (March 20-21) and autumn (September 22-23) equinoxes.
Legends say that the city was built long before the Incas and in ancient times was called Tampu-Tokko - “Shelter of three windows”. Machu Picchu in legends is associated with the origin of civilization in the Andes, when the Gods, under the leadership of the great creator Viracocha, settled the four Ayar brothers and their four sisters-wives in Tampu-Tokko.
Three brothers "came from three windows" to bring civilization to the land of the Andes. One of the Ayar brothers, Manco Capac, founded the city in the place where the golden rod, given to him by the god Viracocha, entered the land.
According to the Spanish monk, historian, Jesuit missionary Fernando Montesinos, this happened around 2400 BC, 3600 years before the Incas. This ancient empire existed for 2500 years until epidemics and earthquakes forced people to leave the Cusco region. The leader, along with a handful of those close to him, took refuge in Tampu-Tocco. And only a thousand years later the Inca empire was founded.
In the book "The Power of Silence" the American writer, anthropologist, ethnographer, mystic Carlos Castaneda wrote: "Thousands of years ago, through" seeing ", sorcerers realized that the earth feels, and that its consciousness can affect the consciousness of people." Apparently, it is no coincidence that the place for the construction of the mysterious Machu Picchu was chosen by the ancient magicians precisely on the peaks of the Andes, where “the earth feels”.
British writer and journalist Graham Hancock wrote about Machu Picchu in the book "Footprints of the Gods":
Author: Valentina Zhitanskaya