Tihuanaku

I went with the family to the crazy ruins of Tihuanacu, close to La Paz. These ruins are utterly astonishing...

MAssive stones carved with intricate designs...these people, estimates date them from 1000bc-1000ad, are much more advanced in stonework than even the inca! There are astonishin megaliths, carved, some reaching heights of five people tall, giant statues. There are emblems and certain indicators that seem to point to the fact that these people used a 24-hour, 52-week calendar just like the Roman calendar. Astonishing! The rocks they used to create one of the largest pyramid-temple structures is made of the second most hard substance on earth, after diamond! Even modern technology has a hard time cutting through this tough substance!

These ruins just make me wonder. Who were these people? Why did they build these crazy buildings, carve these weird emblems and holes and grooves in these rocks? What purpose did they have? Who knows??
I imagine one day, our distant descendents, or some alien race, will look upon the ruins of our civilization pondering similar questions. They will find wall street and say ´what purpose did this have? Why did they build this seeming idiocy?´ And certainly nobody will be able to explain it to them. Even if they came to this time, they would have a hard time getting a solid answer.

Silly monkeys and their buildings...