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This Inca Building—the Only Surviving Structure of Its Kind—Might Have Been Designed to Amplify Sound and Music
The Peruvian town of Huaytará is home to a 15th-century Inca building that’s unusually simple for the civilization, which is ...
This architecture is unusual for the Inca, who are known for intricately designed and durable buildings. As such, it caught ...
The building is known as the carpa uasi, a name that means “tent house”, which is a reference to its open-ended side. It is ...
The building in question had only three walls, potentially enabling sound, like drums, to be directed toward the opening and ...
In the arid highlands of the Huaytará region, a solitary stone building erected by the Inca Empire in the mid-15th century ...
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