The Legend of SARAGURO

The Stones of Saraguro: How an Unlikely 16th-Century Tale Led to an Astonishing 21st Century Discovery.

Inca Emperor Huayna Capac was born in 15th-century Tomebamba (now Cuenca), Ecuador, far from his Peruvian homeland. Later he ordered the building of a new Inca city far from the traditional center of power Cusco.  Thus, gave an emperor’s extraordinary command to build two royal houses in the Inca capital of Cusco.  Then, he ordered that one of these stone structures be dismantled and then move the stones north to his birthplace – some 1200 miles away.

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This epic story, calling for a superhuman feat of transportation over some of the world’s most challenging mountain terrain, was chronicled one hundred years later by a Spanish priest. Not surprisingly, few people believed him.

This first IncaTalk discussion is with Dr. Dennis Ogburn In the early two thousands, U.S. archaeologist Dennis Ogburn began to notice fine cut Inca stones inexplicably scattered around the countryside near Saraguro, some 50 miles south of modern Cuenca in Equador. Modern technology settled the matter. Dr. Ogburn demonstrated that the priest’s story was true; the stones were from an Inca quarry 20 miles south of Cusco, in Peru.

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