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Copyright: michael shalter (retlash)
![Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 60 W: 1 N: 168]](http://i1.treklens.com/misc/g-n-g.gif) (1069) |
| Genre: Places |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2007-10-07 |
| Categories: Architecture |
| Camera: Olympus SP 550 UZ |
| Exposure: f/8, 1/500 seconds |
| More Photo Info: [view] |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2007-12-07 14:08 |
| Viewed: 490 |
| Points: 0 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
| Machu Picchu is, indeed, a wonder of the world. The location, the civilization it embodies, the magnificent stone masonry, etc. The Inca stone masons were ingenious...they devised a system of anti-earthquake construction (involving intercalations and protrusions in their walls to prevent stones from being dislodged). They did not use this technique in all of their constructions, as evidenced here. This wall will inevitably crumble... in a half millenium or so. Adjacent "earthquake-resistant" walls will last several more millenia, but they, too, over geologic time, will crumble. Nothing is permanent. |
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