Posted on 02/12/2025 8:58:34 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Chile's Atacama Desert, home to the world-renowned ALMA telescope, offers breathtaking sights both above and below. One such marvel is the ancient stone fortress of Pukará de Quitor, a relic of the Licán Antai people that has stood for over 900 years...
One such marvel is Pukará de Quitor, an ancient stone fortress built centuries ago by the Licán Antai people, also known as the Atacameños. Located near San Pedro de Atacama, it stands close to the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a world-renowned radio telescope operated by ESO and its international partners.
In this striking image, the fortress's arch perfectly frames the towering Licancabur volcano, which rises along Chile's border with Bolivia. The volcano itself holds archaeological significance, with ruins scattered across its slopes and a summit crater that shelters one of the world's highest-altitude lakes.
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(presumably the arch is post-Columbian)
Astronomers may study the sky, but the ground beneath them holds wonders, too. The Atacama Desert's Pukará de Quitor, a centuries-old fortress, frames the breathtaking Licancabur volcano, a site rich in archaeological and natural marvels. Like the ancient stones beneath our feet, the stars above whisper stories from the past, reminding us that every view is a journey through time.
Credit: ESO/A. Ghizzi Panizza (www.albertoghizzipanizza.com)
Thanks for the link!
That arch must be glued together.
There are many ancient arches around the world that are still standing.
That’s a beautiful picture.
It’s a pre-Columbian McDonald’s................
Appears to be a restoration…one piece archway with a stone veneer glued on.
I wholeheartedly agree.
The Sun, the Moon and the Stars had regularity humans did not see in much else on earth; until they began tracking those regular things in the sky and noticed some things on earth could be predicted (the seasons) by the various celestial regularities.
From that came “God/the Gods must be in heaven” along with the record keeping of celestial events and rhe “science” of predicting earth natural events by matching the cycles of certian events to some celestial regularity(ies).
The stupid “ancient aliens” show attributes many things to some anicent people having contact with aliens, when most often it was no more than ancient people’s beliefs that heaven is where God/the gods resided - because the regularlity of the celestial events suggested it.
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