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From: Savant12/22/2025 3:10:10 PM
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New Findings Finally Reveal the Hidden Engineering of Machu Picchu’s Terraces

**The engineering skill involved is a WoWser...exceeds modern skills

Beneath Machu Picchu's famous terraces lies a 600-year-old engineering marvel that modern civil engineers say shouldn't exist—a multi-layered drainage system so sophisticated it outperforms contemporary designs, built with tools that couldn't have done the work. New 2025 ground-penetrating radar reveals buried older terraces beneath the visible ones, suggesting construction centuries before the Inca, while AI analysis identifies 47 distinct building techniques—some appearing nowhere else in history. The precision is impossible, the tools are wrong, the timeline doesn't work, and the knowledge vanished completely—leaving us with structures that challenge everything we think we know about ancient capabilities.

New Findings Finally Reveal the Hidden Engineering of Machu Picchu’s Terraces
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