Comments on: Surprising water engineering at Machu Picchu

By: Beyond Rome: Infrastructure in Ancient Civilizations - Dan Koboldt

Beyond Rome: Infrastructure in Ancient Civilizations - Dan Koboldt — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 12:00:56 +0000

[…] Incas had running water and an impressive series of public water fountains, but they never really used wheels and barely […]

By: Water – new old discoveries | Observation Science

Water – new old discoveries | Observation Science — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:01:55 +0000

[…] generating small drinking fountains and waterfalls. Found intertwined at the Machu Picchu site; water engineering, obviously important for drinking and irrigation yet never explained by guides. The Quechua […]

By: Water | Walking Footsteps

Water | Walking Footsteps — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 15:19:54 +0000

[…] the way to being proven that it was their own ancient ancestors who built these places, and ‘engineered the water‘: not the Maya or the […]

By: Big Drummer

Big Drummer — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:37:55 +0000

DO YOU KNOW HOW?! ACIENT ALIENS! YEP, IT’S TRUE!

By: Roger Garcia-Marenco

Roger Garcia-Marenco — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:33:46 +0000

Two years ago I was in Machu Picchu and still can’t explain myself, I’m Chem. Eng., the Science, Hydraulics, behind the phenomenon I saw over there about water flowing along a small channel (4″ wide, 1″ deep, some meters long coming from inside the rock) carved in rock and into a cascade at the end of the channel; the guide just stopped the water flow by just putting her finger along the bottom in the mouth of the tiny flat channel’s terminal and retired it, it remained stopped, no water running in or out, the level in the channel remained unchanged, then, half or so a minute later she repeated the finger operation and the water started running again. It was exactly like closing and opening a faucet but there was no such a thing. It was as if the wave generated by stopping the flow in the tiny channel went back and changed something hidden back stopping so the flow but, how it started again after doing the same operation with the finger? It is not magic, miracles, whatsoever, I don’t believe in metaphysics.

I’ll go there again to see it, perhaps this time I’ll get luck enough to find out what is really going on over there. Inca’s Hydraulic Engineering is superb and like none other ever. How is this marvel still working so fine after five hundred years of neglect, abandonment and deterioration in a place were plants grow so wildly. Do I should believe in metaphysics?

By: Four ceremonial fountains discovered at Machu Picchu | ...en Perú - Travel Culture History News

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:17:59 +0000

[…] by the civilisations that came before them. This knowledge is said by experts to have been far superior to that of the Spanish who conquered them and wiped it out for ever. As good a place as any to […]

By: Tipon « Visit Cusco and Peru

Tipon « Visit Cusco and Peru — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:35:01 +0000

[…] Tipon 2009 August 4 tags: history, Inca, Peru, Tipon, travel by wwelvaert Tipon is an Inca archeological site near Cusco, Peru. Like the more famous Machu Picchu, Tipon features typical Inca architecture and Inca water engineering. […]

By: RaysAdventures

RaysAdventures — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:17:18 +0000

This is one of the things that has always impressed me about the Incan culture. Their technological sophistication was well ahead of their time. Water allows life, and “clean” water allows human survivability.

By: Lori

Lori — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:41:47 +0000

This is a very interesting post. I’d love to read more about ancient water management. Very cool.